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.