6:38. Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that worship them shall be confounded. 6:39. How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods? 6:40. Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they here of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak. 6:41. As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense. 6:42. The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. 6:43. And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. 6:44. But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods? 6:45. And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be. 6:46. For the artificers themselves that make them, are of no long continuance. Can those things then that are made by them, be gods? 6:47. But they have left false things and reproach to them that come after. 6:48. For when war cometh upon them, or evils: the priests consult with themselves, where they may hide themselves with them. 6:49. How then can they be thought to be gods, that can neither deliver themselves from war, nor save themselves from evils? 6:50. For seeing they are but of wood, and laid over with gold, and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false things, by all nations, and kings: and it shall be manifest that they are no gods, but the work of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them. 6:51. Whence, therefore, is it known that they are not gods, but the work of men's hands, and no work of God is in them? 6:52. They cannot set up a king over the land, nor give rain to men. 6:53. They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression: because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth. 6:54. For when fire shall fall upon the house of these gods of wood, and of silver, and of gold, their priests indeed will flee away, and be saved: but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst like beams. 6:55. And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods? 6:56. Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or robbers: they that are stronger than them, They that are stronger than them... That is, robbers and thieves are stronger than these idols, being things without life or motion. 6:57. Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves.