18 With whom, then, will you compare God?(A)
    To what image(B) will you liken him?

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18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

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18 To whom then will you (A)liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

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20 A person too poor to present such an offering
    selects wood(A) that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
    to set up an idol(B) that will not topple.(C)

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20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

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20 Whoever is too impoverished for such [a]a contribution
Chooses a tree that will not rot;
He seeks for himself a skillful workman
(A)To prepare a carved image that will not totter.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:20 an offering

29 See, they are all false!
    Their deeds amount to nothing;(A)
    their images(B) are but wind(C) and confusion.

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29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

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29 (A)Indeed they are all [a]worthless;
Their works are nothing;
Their molded images are wind and confusion.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:29 So with MT, Vg.; DSS, Syr., Tg. nothing; LXX omits first line