16Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the animals of it sufficient for a burnt offering.
17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
18To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?
19The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
20He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.
21Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;