Given by: the inspired teacher, in Solomon's voice, opening the book's meditation on idolatry. Given to: all people, especially the cultivated pagans who admired nature yet missed its Author. This is a declared truth about the human mind and God.

Written for Jews amid Hellenistic paganism, the passage gently indicts a world that studied the elements and stars but stopped short of their Maker, insisting that creation itself points beyond itself to God.

But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:

Those who lack the knowledge of God are empty within, for they failed to reason from the good things they see to the God who made them.

Wisdom of Solomon 13:1

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour