¹⁸ Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

⁷ Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.

⁸ Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

¹⁸ They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

¹⁹ And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

²⁰ As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

⁸ But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.