3
For the customs of the people are vain; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
4
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not; they must be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good."
6
Inasmuch as there is none like unto Thee, O LORD--Thou art great, and Thy name is great in might"
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who would not fear Thee, O King of nations? For to Thee doth it appertain, inasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto Thee.
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But they are altogether brutish and foolish; the stock is a doctrine of vanities.