39
Their gods of wood, which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded.
40
How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them?
41
If they shall see one dumb who cannot speak, they bring him and entreat 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 companion that she was not thought as worthy as herself nor her cord broken.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.