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.