From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 13:10-19
13:10 But wretched are they, with their hopes set on dead things, who have given the title of gods to human artefacts, gold or silver, skilfully worked, figures of animals, or useless stone, carved by some hand long ago.
13:11 Take a woodcutter. He fells a suitable tree, neatly strips off the bark all over and then with admirable skill works the wood into an object useful in daily life.
13:12 The bits left over from his work he uses for cooking his food, then eats his fill.
13:13 There is still a good-for-nothing bit left over, a gnarled and knotted billet: he takes it and whittles it with the concentration of his leisure hours, he shapes it with the skill of experience, he gives it a human shape
13:14 or perhaps he makes it into some vile animal, smears it with ochre, paints its surface red, coats over all its blemishes.
13:15 He next makes a worthy home for it, lets it into the wall, fixes it with an iron clamp.
13:16 Thus he makes sure that it will not fall down — being well aware that it cannot help itself, since it is only an image, and needs to be helped.
13:17 And yet, if he wishes to pray for his goods, for his marriage, for his children, he does not blush to harangue this lifeless thing — for health, he invokes what is weak,
13:18 for life, he pleads with what is dead, for help, he goes begging to total inexperience, for a journey, what cannot even use its feet,
13:19 for profit, an undertaking, and success in pursuing his craft, he asks skill from something whose hands have no skill whatever.
Culled from the Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Books