²⁰ The one who is too impoverished for a gift chooses wood that will not rot;
    he seeks a skillful artisan for himself to set up an image that will not be knocked over.
²¹ Have you not known?
    Have you not heard?
Has it not been told to you from the beginning?^[a]
    Have you not understood from the foundation of the earth?
²² He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth,
    and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
the one who stretches out the heavens like a veil
    and spreads them out like a tent to live in,