12. The blacksmith takes an axe,works in the coals,fashions it with hammers,and works it with his strong arm.He is hungry,and his strength fails;he drinks no water,and is faint.
13. The carpenter stretches out a line.He marks it out with a pencil.He shapes it with planes.He marks it out with compasses,and shapes it like the figure of a man,with the beauty of a man,to reside in a house.
14. He cuts down cedars for himself,and takes the cypress and the oak,and strengthens for himself one amongst the trees of the forest.He plants a cypress tree,and the rain nourishes it.
15. Then it will be for a man to burn;and he takes some of it, and warms himself.Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.Yes, he makes a god, and worships it;he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.
16. He burns part of it in the fire.With part of it, he eats meat.He roasts a roast, and is satisfied.Yes, he warms himself,and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”
17. The rest of it he makes into a god,even his engraved image.He bows down to it and worships,and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!”
18. They don’t know, neither do they consider:for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see;and their hearts, that they can’t understand.