13. When dust from the temple settles on their faces, someone has to wipe it off for them.
14. Like human judges they hold sceptres in their hands, but they have no power to punish anyone who wrongs them.
15. Sometimes they have daggers and axes in their hands, but they cannot protect themselves from being destroyed in war or from being carried off by thieves.
16. All this proves that they are not gods — do not worship them.