From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 15: 7-13
15:7 Take a potter, now, laboriously working the soft earth, shaping each object for us to use. Out of the self-same clay, he models vessels intended for a noble use and those for a contrary purpose, all alike: but which of these two uses each will have is for the potter himself to decide.
15:8 Then — ill — spent effort!-from the same clay he models a futile god, although so recently made out of earth himself and shortly to return to what he was taken from, when asked to give back the soul that has been lent to him.
15:9 Even so, he does not worry about having to die or about the shortness of his life, but strives to outdo the goldsmiths and silversmiths, imitates the bronzeworkers, and prides himself on modelling counterfeits.
15:10 Ashes, his heart; more vile than earth, his hope; more wretched than clay, his life!
15:11 For he has misconceived the One who has modelled him, who breathed an active soul into him and inspired a living spirit.
15:12 What is more, he looks on this life of ours as a kind of game, and our time here like a fair, full of bargains. ‘However foul the means,’ he says, ‘a man must make a living.’
15:13 He, more than any other, knows he is sinning, he who from one earthy stuff makes both brittle pots and idols.
Culled from the Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Book