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;
23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
24Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
25To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.
