3 for the customs of the peoples are worthless.

Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;

it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

4 He decorates it with silver and gold.b

It is fastened with hammer and nails,c

so it won’t totter.

5 Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch,

their idols cannot speak.d

They must be carriede because they cannot walk.

Do not fear them for they can do no harmf—

and they cannot do any good.g