Wisdom 13:9

9 For if they were able to know so much that they could contemplate the world, how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?

Wisdom 13:9 In-Context

7 For accustomed to dwelling among His works, they search Him out diligently and believe their sight, because the things are beautiful that are seen.

8 However, neither are they to be pardoned.

9 For if they were able to know so much that they could contemplate the world, how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?

10 But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who called them gods which are the works of men's hands, gold and silver, artfully wrought, and resemblances of beasts or a stone good for nothing, the work of an ancient hand. Œ

11 Now a carpenter who felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skillfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely and made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man's life;