Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before him. They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
In Context
16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt-offering.
18To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him?
Cross References
Job 25:6How much less man, who is a worm! And the son of man, who is a worm!
Psalms 62:10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery. If riches increase, set not your heart [on it].
Daniel 4:32And thou shall be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. Thou shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of me
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:13-18
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord , or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 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? 15 Behold, the… Read the whole commentary →