18. To whom can you compare God?What image can you find to resemble him?
19. Can he be compared to an idol formed in a mold,overlaid with gold, and decorated with silver chains?
20. Or if people are too poor for that,they might at least choose wood that won’t decayand a skilled craftsmanto carve an image that won’t fall down!
21. Haven’t you heard? Don’t you understand?Are you deaf to the words of God—the words he gave before the world began?Are you so ignorant?
22. God sits above the circle of the earth.The people below seem like grasshoppers to him!He spreads out the heavens like a curtainand makes his tent from them.
23. He judges the great people of the worldand brings them all to nothing.