Psalm 115:7
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New International Version (©2011)
They have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They have hands but cannot feel, and feet but cannot walk, and throats but cannot make a sound.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They have hands, but they cannot feel; They have feet, but they cannot walk; They cannot make a sound with their throat.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They have hands but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot make a sound with their throats.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They have hands, but cannot touch; feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even groan with their throats.

NET Bible (©2006)
hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
They do not feel with their hands neither do they walk with their feet and they do not speak with their throats.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They have hands, but they cannot feel. They have feet, but they cannot walk. They cannot [even] make a sound with their throats.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

American King James Version
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

American Standard Version
They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat.

Darby Bible Translation
They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and they walk not; they give no sound through their throat.

English Revised Version
They have hands, but they handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through their throat.

Webster's Bible Translation
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

World English Bible
They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

Young's Literal Translation
Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

115:1-8 Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or in our praises. All the good we do, is done by the power of his grace; and all the good we have, is the gift of his mere mercy, and he must have all the praise. Are we in pursuit of any mercy, and wrestling with God for it, we must take encouragement in prayer from God only. Lord, do so for us; not that we may have the credit and comfort of it, but that they mercy and truth may have the glory of it. The heathen gods are senseless things. They are the works of men's hands: the painter, the carver, the statuary, can put no life into them, therefore no sense. The psalmist hence shows the folly of the worshippers of idols.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They have hands, but they handle not,.... So as to feel any thing that is put into their hands; they cannot make use of their hands to stretch them out, and receive anything from their worshippers; nor can they give anything to them: but our God receives and accepts the sacrifices of his people, their prayers and their praises; and opens his hand, and liberally supplies their wants, both in providence and grace.

Feet have they, but they walk not; cannot stir from the place where they are, to the assistance of those that call unto them, Isaiah 46:7 but our God walks upon the wings of the wind, and is a present help in times of trouble; a God at hand and afar off, and makes haste to the relief of his people in distress.

Neither speak they through their throat; or make a mournful voice as a dove, as the word is used in Isaiah 38:14 or chirp as a bird, or chatter as a crane; or warble out any note through the throat, as birds do; and much less form any articulate sound, or utter any proper word, that may be understood.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. speak … throat—literally, "mutter," not even utter articulate sounds.

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To Your Name Give Glory
…6They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8They that make them are like to them; so is every one that trusts in them. …

Psalm 115:6 They have ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell.
Psalm 115:8 Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.
Jeremiah 10:5 Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good."