6. But maybe we are too harsh with these people. After all, they may have really wanted to find God, but they couldn't.
7. Surrounded by God's works, they keep on looking at them, until they are finally convinced that because the things they see are so beautiful, they must be gods.
8. But still, these people really have no excuse.
9. If they had enough intelligence to speculate about the nature of the universe, why did they never find the Lord of all things?
10. But the most miserable people of all are those who rest their hopes on lifeless things, who worship things that have been made by human hands — images of animals artistically made from gold and silver, or some useless stone carved by someone long ago.