^12 (A)Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
    and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
    and weighed the mountains in scales
    and the hills in a balance?
^13 (B)Who has measured^[a] the Spirit of the Lord,
    or what man shows him his counsel?
¹⁴ Whom did he consult,
    and who made him understand?
^(C)Who taught him the path of justice,
    and taught him knowledge,
    and showed him the way of understanding?
¹⁵ Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
    and are accounted ^(D)as the dust on the scales;
    behold, he takes up ^(E)the coastlands like fine dust.
¹⁶ Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,
    nor are ^(F)its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
^17 (G)All the nations are as nothing before him,
    they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

²⁷ Why do you say, O Jacob,
    and speak, O Israel,
^(A)“My way is hidden from the Lord,
    ^(B)and my right is disregarded by my God”?
²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is ^(C)the everlasting God,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
    ^(D)his understanding is unsearchable.
²⁹ He gives power to the faint,
    and to him who has no might he increases strength.
³⁰ Even youths shall faint and be weary,
    and young men shall fall exhausted;
³¹ but ^(E)they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
    they shall mount up with wings ^(F)like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
    they shall walk and not faint.