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19 With an idol? An idol made from a mold, overlaid with gold, and with silver chains around its neck? 20 The man too poor to buy expensive gods like that will find a tree free from rot and hire a man to carve a face on it, and that’s his god—a god that cannot even move!

21 Are you so ignorant? Are you so deaf to the words of God—the words he gave before the world began? Have you never heard nor understood?

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19 As for an idol,(A) a metalworker casts it,
    and a goldsmith(B) overlays it with gold(C)
    and fashions silver chains for it.
20 A person too poor to present such an offering
    selects wood(D) that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
    to set up an idol(E) that will not topple.(F)

21 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?(G)
Has it not been told(H) you from the beginning?(I)
    Have you not understood(J) since the earth was founded?(K)

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