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Rh :And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure,
 * And weighed the mountains in scales,
 * And the hills in a balance?
 * Who hath meted out the spirit of the ?
 * Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?
 * With 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?
 * Behold, 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.
 * And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel,
 * Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings.
 * All the nations are as nothing before Him;
 * They are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.
 * To whom then will ye liken God?
 * Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?
 * The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted,
 * And the goldsmith spread over with gold,
 * The silversmith casting silver chains?
 * A 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.


 * Know ye not? hear ye not?
 * Hath it not been told you from the beginning?
 * Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?
 * 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;
 * That bringeth princes to nothing;
 * He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.
 * Scarce 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.
 * To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal?
 * Saith the Holy One.
 * Lift 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.


 * Why sayest thou, O Jacob,
 * And speakest, O Israel:
 * 'My way is hid from the ,
 * And my right is passed over from my God'?
 * Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard
 * That the everlasting God, the ,
 * The Creator of the ends of the earth,
 * Fainteth not, neither is weary?
 * His discernment is past searching out.
 * He giveth power to the faint;