12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with his span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
13. Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and, as his counsellor, hath taught him?
14. With whom took he counsel, and who gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
15. Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.
16. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
17. All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
18. To whom then will ye liken ·God and what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19. The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it.
20. He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering, chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
21. --Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?
22. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
23. that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
24. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.