Isaiah 40:17
To him all the nations are like nothing. He counts them as less than nothing—like they don't exist.
Free Bible 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
18Who do you think is like God? What image do you think he looks like?
Cross References
Job 25:6how much less a human being—who by comparison is like a maggot or a worm!”
Psalms 62:10Don't trust in money made by extortion or robbery. Don't be proud of your wealth even if you are successful—don't make money what you live for.
Daniel 4:32You will be driven away from human society and you will live with the wild animals. You will eat grass like the cattle, and you will become soaked with the dew of heaven. You will be like this for seven times until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over human kingdoms, and that he gives them to whoever he chooses.”
2 Corinthians 12:11I'm talking like a fool, but you made me do it! You should really have been speaking well of me, for in no way am I inferior to the super-apostles, even though I don't count for anything.
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 →