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Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not,
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For they can neither curse nor bless kings:
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Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.
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The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a cover and help themselves.
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It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.
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For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.
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And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to adead body, that is east into the dark.
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And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.
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Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.