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.
21Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?
