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• they roar and shriek before their gods as people do at funeral feasts. (Baruch 6, 31)

• Whether these gods are treated badly or well, they are incapable of paying back either treatment; as incapable too of making or unmaking kings, (Baruch 6, 33)

• equally incapable of distributing wealth or money. If anyone fails to honour a vow he has made to them, they cannot call him to account. (Baruch 6, 34)

• They can neither save anyone from death nor rescue the weak from the strong, (Baruch 6, 35)

• nor restore sight to the blind, nor save anyone in trouble, (Baruch 6, 36)

• nor take pity on a widow, nor be generous to an orphan. (Baruch 6, 37)

• These wooden gods overlaid with gold and silver are about as much use as rocks cut out of the mountain side. Their worshippers will be confounded! (Baruch 6, 38)

• So how can anyone think or say that they are gods? (Baruch 6, 39)

• 'The Chaldaeans themselves do them no honour; if they find someone who is dumb and cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him for the gift of speech, as though he could perceive it! (Baruch 6, 40)

• when one of these has been picked up by a passer-by and been to bed with him, she then gloats over her neighbour for not having been thought as worthy as herself and for not having had her string broken. (Baruch 6, 43)

• Whatever is done for them is spurious. So how can anyone think or say that they are gods? (Baruch 6, 44)

• 'Made by woodworkers and goldsmiths, they are only what those workmen decide to make them. (Baruch 6, 45)