Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

“‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.

Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful – maybe you will scare away disaster.

What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?