10 His heart is ashes, And his hope of less value than earth, And his life of less honor than clay:
11 Because he was ignorant of him that moulded him, And of him that inspired into him an active soul, And breathed into him a vital spirit.
12 But he accounted our very life to be a plaything, And our lifetime a gainful fair; For, says he, one must get gain whence one can, though it be by evil.
13 For this man beyond all others knows that he sins, Out of earthy matter making brittle vessels and graven images.
14 But most foolish were they all, and of feebler soul than a babe, The enemies of your people, who oppressed them;
15 Because they even accounted all the idols of the nations to be gods; Which have neither the use of eyes for seeing, Nor nostrils for drawing breath, Nor ears to hear, Nor fingers for handling, And their feet are helpless for walking.
16 For a man made them, And one whose own spirit is borrowed moulded them; For no one has power, being a man, to mould a god like to himself,