Jeremiah 10:8 They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

English Standard Version
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

New American Standard Bible
But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion-- their idol is wood!

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

International Standard Version
Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece of wood!

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

Cross References

Isaiah 44:18
They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 3:9
And it came to pass through the lightness of her prostitution, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are silly children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 5:4
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Habakkuk 2:18
What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts therein, to make dumb idols?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. altogether—rather, "all alike" [Maurer]. Even the so-called "wise" men (Jer 10:7) of the Gentiles are on a level with the brutes and "foolish," namely, because they connive at the popular idolatry (compare Ro 1:21-28). Therefore, in Daniel and Revelation, the world power is represented under a bestial form. Man divests himself of his true humanity, and sinks to the level of the brute, when he severs his connection with God (Ps 115:8; Jon 2:8).

stock is a doctrine of vanities—The stock (put for the worship of all idols whatever, made out of a stock) speaks for itself that the whole theory of idolatry is vanity (Isa 44:9-11). Castalio translates, "the very wood itself confuting the vanity" (of the idol).