Jeremiah 10:8 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

They are complete idiots. They learn nonsense from wooden idols.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

ASV:

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

BBE:

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

DBY:

But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

ERV:

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.

JPS:

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;

WBS:

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

WEB:

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

YLT:

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

Jeremiah 10:8 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 4:22 "For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know."

Jeremiah 5:4 Then I said, "They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the LORD Or the ordinance of their God.

Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

10:8 But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the stock [is] a {e} doctrine of vanities.
(e) Because the people thought that to have images was a means to serve God, and to bring them to the knowledge of him, he shows that nothing more displeases God, nor brings man into greater errors and ignorance of God: and therefore he calls them the doctrine of vanity, the work of errors, Jer 10:15. Hab 2:18 calls them the teachers of lies: contrary to that wicked opinion, that they are the books of the lay people.

MHC:

10:1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked customs of the heathen. Let us stand in awe, and not dare provoke God, by giving that glory to another which is due to him alone. He is ready to forgive, and save all who repent and believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ. Faith learns these blessed truths from the word of God; but all knowledge not from that source, leads to doctrines of vanity.

CONC:

FALSE Beasts Brutish Delusion-their Discipline Doctrine Foolish Gods Idol Idols Instructed Instruction Itself Senseless Stock Stupid Taught Teaching Tree Vanities Wood Wooden Worthless

Altogether Beasts Brutish Discipline Doctrine False. Foolish Gods Idol Idols Instructed Instruction Itself Senseless Stock Stupid Taught Teaching Together Tree Vanities Wood Wooden Worthless

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