American King James Version
"All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. ¶ "
— Isaiah 40:17, American King James Version
“All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.”
“All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity. ”
“All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.”
“All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.”
“All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.”
“All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.”
“All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.”
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. ¶
To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.