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18 Can you compare God to anything?
    Can you compare him to an image of anything?
19 An idol is formed by a man.
    And another man covers it with gold.
    And he makes silver chains for it.
20 A poor man cannot buy those expensive statues.
    So he finds a tree that will not rot.
And he finds a skilled workman
    to make it into an idol that will not fall over.

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18 With whom, then, will you compare God?(A)
    To what image(B) will you liken him?
19 As for an idol,(C) a metalworker casts it,
    and a goldsmith(D) overlays it with gold(E)
    and fashions silver chains for it.
20 A person too poor to present such an offering
    selects wood(F) that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
    to set up an idol(G) that will not topple.(H)

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