12. The ironsmith fashions a likeness,he works it over the coals,Shaping it with hammers,working it with his strong arm.With hunger his strength wanes,without water, he grows faint.
13. The woodworker stretches a line,and marks out a shape with a stylus.He shapes it with scraping tools,with a compass measures it off,Making it the copy of a man,human display, enthroned in a shrine.
14. He goes out to cut down cedars,takes a holm tree or an oak.He picks out for himself trees of the forest,plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.
15. It is used for fuel:with some of the wood he warms himself,makes a fire and bakes bread.Yet he makes a god and worships it,turns it into an idol and adores it!
16. Half of it he burns in the fire,on its embers he roasts meat;he eats the roast and is full.He warms himself and says, “Ah!I am warm! I see the flames!”