Wisdom 13:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² He will take the leftover pieces and use them as firewood to cook a meal that he can sit down to and enjoy. ¹³ But among that scrap wood he may take one piece that isn't good for anything—maybe it's crooked and full of knots—and carefully carve it in his leisure time, using spare moments to shape it into the crude image of a person, ¹⁴ or maybe of some worthless animal. He paints it all over with red, covering up every flaw in the work.