6:15. Therefore fear them not. For as a vessel that a man uses when it is broken becometh useless, even so are their gods: 6:16. When they are placed in the house, their eyes are full of dust by the feet of them that go in. 6:17. And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves. 6:18. They light candles to them, and in great number, of which they cannot see one: but they are like beams in the house. 6:19. And they say that the creeping things which are of the earth, gnaw their hearts, while they eat them and their garments, and they feel it not. 6:20. Their faces are black with the smoke that is made in the house. 6:21. Owls, and swallows, and other birds fly upon their bodies, and upon their heads, and cats in like manner. 6:22. Whereby you may know that they are no gods. Therefore fear them not. 6:23. The gold also which they have, is for shew, but except a man wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten, did they feel it. 6:24. Men buy them at a high price, whereas there is no breath in them. 6:25. And having not the use of feet they are carried upon shoulders, declaring to men how vile they are. Be they confounded also that worship them. 6:26. Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead. 6:27. The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor. 6:28. The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not. 6:29. For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood: 6:30. And priests sit in their temples, having their garments rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads. 6:31. And they roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead. 6:32. The priests take away their garments, and clothe their wives and their children. 6:33. And whether it be evil that one doth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: neither can they set up a king, nor put him down: 6:34. In like manner they can neither give riches, nor requite evil. If a man make a vow to them, and perform it not: they cannot require it. 6:35. They cannot deliver a man from death, nor save the weak from the mighty. 6:36. They cannot restore the blind man to his sight: nor deliver a man from distress. 6:37. They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.