10. See, the Master יהוה comes with a strong hand, and His arm rules for Him. See, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.
11. He feeds His flock like a shepherd, He gathers the lambs with His arm, and carries them in His bosom, gently leading those who are with young.
12. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured the heavens with a span, and contained the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
13. Who has meted out the Spirit of יהוה, or as His counsellor taught Him?
14. With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of right-ruling? Who taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?
15. See, nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the balance. See, He lifts up isles as fine dust.
16. And Leḇanon is not enough to burn, nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
17. All nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness.
18. And to whom would you liken Ěl? And what likeness would you compare to Him?
19. The workman moulds a graven image, and the goldsmith overspreads it with gold, and the silversmith casts silver chains.
20. He who is too poor for such an offering chooses a tree that does not rot. He seeks for himself a skilled craftsman to prepare a carved image that does not totter.
21. Did you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to 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 its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
23. who brings princes to naught, shall make the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
24. Hardly have they been planted, hardly have they been sown, hardly has their stock taken root in the earth, when He shall blow on them and they wither, and a whirlwind take them away like stubble.