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.
23 He brings the princes to nothing;He makes the judges of the earth meaningless.