Baruch 6:40
New Revised Standard Version
Why then must anyone think that they are gods, or call them gods? Besides, even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them; for when they see someone who cannot speak, they bring Bel and pray that the mute may speak, as though Bel were able to understand!

New American Bible
Even the Chaldeans themselves have no respect for them; for when they see a deaf mute, unable to speak, they bring forward Bel and expect him to make a sound, as though he could hear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak.

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Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak.

Baruch 6:38
Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that worship them shall be confounded.

Baruch 6:39
How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods?

Baruch 6:41
As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense.

Baruch 6:42
The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones.

Context
Baruch 6
39How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods? 40Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak. 41As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense.…
Cross References
Baruch 6:38
Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that worship them shall be confounded.

Baruch 6:39
How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods?

Baruch 6:41
As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense.

Baruch 6:42
The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones.



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Baruch 6:39
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