13. Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord or being his counsellor has taught him?
14. With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him? Who taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and showed unto him the way of intelligence?
15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he causes the isles to disappear as dust.
16. And all Lebanon is not sufficient for the fire, nor all the beasts thereof sufficient for the sacrifice.
17. All the Gentiles are as nothing before him, and they are counted to him as vanity and as less than nothing.
18. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19. The workman prepares the graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold and casts silver chains.
20. He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto himself a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
21. Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not been taught since the land was founded?
22. He is seated upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; he stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
23. He brings the powerful to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as if they had never been,
24. As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their stock had never taken root in the earth; even blowing upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.