²¹ Do you not know?^(A)
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?^(B)
22 God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.^(C)
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth^(D)
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.^(E)
23 He reduces princes to nothing^(F)
and makes judges of the earth like a wasteland.
²⁴ They are barely planted, barely sown,
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.^(G)