11. because he ignores the One who molded him, and who instilled in him a working soul, and who breathed into him a living spirit.
12. Yet they even considered our life to be a plaything, and the usefulness of life to be the accumulation of wealth, and that we must be acquiring things in every possible way, even from evil.
13. For, above all else, he knows himself to be lacking, who, from fragile material of the earth forms vessels and graven images.
14. For all the foolish and unhappy, in charge of the way of the arrogant soul, are enemies of your people and rule over them,
15. because they have esteemed all the idols of the nations as gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor the fingers of hands to grasp, and even their feet are slow to walk.