⁴ They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

¹⁹ The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

²⁰ The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

⁷ They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.

⁴ Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

¹⁵ The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

⁶ They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!

⁷ So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

¹² The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.