24
Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.
22
Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also.
23
By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
24
Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.
25
The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price.
26
They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.