40
How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?
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.
42
Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge.
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.
44
Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.