8. And with effort he molds an empty god of the same clay, he who a little before had been made from the earth, and, after brief time, he himself returns from whence he came, to be claimed by he who holds the debt of his soul.
9. Yet his concern is, not what his work will be, nor that his life is short, but that he is being contested by those who work with gold and silver, yet he also does the same to those who work with copper, and he glories that he makes worthless things.
10. For his heart is ashes, and his hope is worthless dirt, and his life is more common than clay,
11. because he ignores the One who molded him, and who instilled in him a working soul, and who breathed into him a living spirit.
12. Yet they even considered our life to be a plaything, and the usefulness of life to be the accumulation of wealth, and that we must be acquiring things in every possible way, even from evil.
13. For, above all else, he knows himself to be lacking, who, from fragile material of the earth forms vessels and graven images.
14. For all the foolish and unhappy, in charge of the way of the arrogant soul, are enemies of your people and rule over them,