Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Revised Version 1895
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 thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Cross References
Job 25:6How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, which is a worm!
Psalms 62:10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
Daniel 4:32and thou shalt be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee; until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
2 Corinthians 12:11I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, 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 →