²⁰ Such a person feeds on ashes;^(A) a deluded^(B) heart misleads him;
    he cannot save himself, or say,
    “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?^(C)”

¹⁴ Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;
    every goldsmith is shamed^(A) by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud;^(B)
    they have no breath in them.

²⁵ This is your lot,
    the portion^(A) I have decreed for you,”
declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten^(B) me
    and trusted in false gods.^(C)