Wisdom 13:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹² and burn the cast-off pieces of his work
to prepare his food, and eat his fill.
¹³ But a cast-off piece from among them, useful for nothing,
a stick crooked and full of knots,
he takes and carves with care in his leisure,
and shapes it with skill gained in idleness;^[a]
he forms it in the likeness of a human being,
¹⁴ or makes it like some worthless animal,
giving it a coat of red paint and colouring its surface red
and covering every blemish in it with paint;