Wisdom 15:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ A mere human made them. A person who has been given his spirit on loan crafted them. But no human is ever able to fashion a god who is anything like God. ¹⁷ Being a human, a person can construct only a dead thing with lawless hands. These people are better than the things that they worship, for they have life and the things that they worship do not.

¹⁸ On top of it all, the enemies of your people worship the most hateful animals, things that are less intelligent than any other creatures.