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And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure,

And weighed the mountains in scales,

And the hills in a balance?

¹³Who hath meted out the spirit of the Lord?

Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?

¹⁴With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him,

And taught Him in the path of right,

And taught Him knowledge,

And made Him to know the way of discernment?

¹⁵Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket,

And are counted as the small dust of the balance;

Behold the isles are as a mote in weight.

¹⁶And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel,

Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings.

¹⁷All the nations are as nothing before Him;

They are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.

¹⁸To whom then will ye liken God?

Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?

¹⁹The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted,

And the goldsmith spread over with gold,

The silversmith casting silver chains?

²⁰A holm-oak is set apart,

He chooseth a tree that will not rot;

He seeketh unto him a cunning craftsman

To set up an image, that shall not be moved.

 

²¹Know ye not? hear ye not?

Hath it not been told you from the beginning?

Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?

²²It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth,

And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;

That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,

And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

²³That bringeth princes to nothing;

He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.

²⁴Scarce are they planted,

Scarce are they sown,

Scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth;

When He bloweth upon them, they wither,

And the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

²⁵To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal?

Saith the Holy One.

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high,

And see: who hath created these?

He that bringeth out their host by number,

He calleth them all by name;

By the greatness of His might, and for that He is strong in power,

Not one faileth.

 

²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob,

And speakest, O Israel:

'My way is hid from the Lord,

And my right is passed over from my God'?

²⁸Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard

That the everlasting God, the Lord,

The Creator of the ends of the earth,

Fainteth not, neither is weary?

His discernment is past searching out.

²⁹He giveth power to the faint;

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