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.
24 Scarcely shall they be planted;scarcely shall they be sown;scarcely shall their tree take root in the earth,when He will also blow on them,and they will wither,and the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.