^{18 Ref} To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

^{19 Ref} The image, a workman hath cast `it', and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth `for it' silver chains.

^{20 Ref} He that is too impoverished for `such' an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.

^{21 Ref} Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

^{22 Ref} `It 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;

^{23 Ref} that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

^{24 Ref} Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

^{25 Ref} To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal `to him'? saith the Holy One.