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 meted out heaven with the span,and calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,and weighed the mountains in scales,and the hills in a balance?
13. Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,or as His counselor has taught Him?
14. With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him,and taught Him in the path of justice,and taught Him knowledge,and showed to Him the way of understanding?
15. Certainly the nations are as a drop in a bucket,and are counted as the small dust of the balance;He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.
16. Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,nor the beasts sufficient as a burnt offering.
17. All nations before Him are as nothing,and they are counted by Him as less than nothingand meaningless.
18. To whom then will you liken God?Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
19. The workman melts a graven image,and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold,and casts silver chains.
20. He who is too impoverished for such an offeringchooses a tree that will not rot;he seeks for himself a skillful workmanto prepare a graven image that shall not totter.
21. Have you not known?Have you not heard?Has it not been told to you from the beginning?Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22. It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth,and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers,who stretches out the heavens as a curtain,and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.