6:28 As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it. 6:29 Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not. 6:30 For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood. 6:31 And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads. 6:32 They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead. 6:33 The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their wives and children. 6:34 Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down. 6:35 In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it. 6:36 They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty. 6:37 They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress. 6:38 They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless. 6:39 Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded. 6:40 How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them? 6:41 Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand. 6:42 Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge. 6:43 The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. 6:44 Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods? 6:45 They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be. 6:46 And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods? 6:47 For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after. 6:48 For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them. 6:49 How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague? 6:50 For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false: 6:51 And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.