14Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?
15See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.
16And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.
17All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.
18Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
19The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
20The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.
