15 This is because they believed their pagan idols really were gods—those images that could neither see nor breathe nor hear nor use their hands or feet.
16 They were made by some human whose soul was borrowed, and none of us can make a god that is our equal.
17 In fact, we humans are mortal ourselves, and any idol we make with our own evil hands is less than we are and is completely lifeless.
18 Those Egyptians worshiped snakes, the lowest form of animal life,
19 a form of life so ugly that you did not even give it your blessing.