11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and prepared the heavens with his palm and with three fingers measured the dust of the earth and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills with weights?
13. Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord or being his counsellor has taught him?
14. With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him? Who taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and showed unto him the way of intelligence?
15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he causes the isles to disappear as dust.
16. And all Lebanon is not sufficient for the fire, nor all the beasts thereof sufficient for the sacrifice.
17. All the Gentiles are as nothing before him, and they are counted to him as vanity and as less than nothing.
18. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19. The workman prepares the graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold and casts silver chains.
20. He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto himself a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
21. Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not been taught since the land was founded?