ECB(i)
18 To whom then liken you El? Or what likeness line you up to him?
19 The engraver pours a sculptile; and the refiner overlays with gold and refines silver chains.
20 He who is so cut off that he has no exaltment chooses a tree that rots not; he seeks a wise engraver to prepare a sculptile that topples not.
21 Know you not? Hear you not? Were you not told from the beginning? Discerned you not from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he who settles on the circle of the earth, and the settlers are as locusts who spread the heavens as a veil, - spreads them as a tent to settle in:
23 who gives the potentates to naught; who works the judges of the earth as waste.
24 Yes, they are not planted; yes, they are not seeded: yes, their stump roots not in the earth: and he also puffs on them, and they wither, and the storm bears them away as stubble.
25 To whom then liken you me, or equate? says the Holy One.