13. Who has assisted the Spirit of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor and has revealed things to him?
14. With whom has he consulted? And who has instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and guided him to knowledge, and revealed the way of understanding to him?
15. Behold, the nations are like a drop of water in a bucket, and they are considered as the smallest grain on a balance. Behold, the islands are like a little dust.
16. And Lebanon will not be sufficient to start a fire, and its animals will not be sufficient for a burnt offering.
17. All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.
18. Therefore, to whom would you liken God? Or with what image would you replace him?
19. Should the workman cast a statue? Or has the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?
20. He has chosen strong wood that will not decay. The skillful artisan seeks a way to set up an idol that cannot be moved.
21. Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been announced to you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth?
22. He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.
23. He has brought those who examine what is secret to nothingness. He has brought the judges of the earth to emptiness.
24. And certainly, their stalk was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the ground. He has suddenly blown them across them, and they have withered, and a whirlwind will carry them away like chaff.
25. "And to whom would you compare me or equate me?" says the Holy One.
26. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things. He leads forth their army by number, and he calls them all by name. Because of the fullness of his strength and robustness and virtue, not one of them was left behind.
27. Why do you say this, O Jacob, and why do you speak this way, O Israel? "My way has been hidden from the Lord, and my judgment escaped notice by my God."