40:18 To whom can you compare God?
To what image can you liken him?
40:19 A craftsman casts 1 an idol;
a metalsmith overlays it with gold
and forges silver chains for it.
40:20 To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot; 2
he then seeks a skilled craftsman
to make 3 an idol that will not fall over.
40:21 Do you not know?
Do you not hear?
Has it not been told to you since the very beginning?
Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?
40:22 He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; 4
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. 5
He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, 6
and spreads it out 7 like a pitched tent. 8
40:23 He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing;
he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.