Wisdom 15:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ For it was a man who made them;
    they were fashioned by one whose very breath is on loan.
For no artisan can form a god to resemble himself;
¹⁷     since he is mortal, what he is able to form with his impious hands is dead.
Thus, he is superior to the objects of his worship,
    since he has the life that his idols never had.
^{18     [a]}And besides, they worship even the most loathsome animals,
    worse than all the others in their lack of intelligence,