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

^{22 Ref} [It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;

^{23 Ref} who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

^{24 Ref} Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

^{25 Ref} To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.

^{26 Ref} Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.