Psalm 115:5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.

◄ Psalm 115:5 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.

English Standard Version
They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.

New American Standard Bible
They have mouths, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see;

King James Bible
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.

International Standard Version
They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see.

American Standard Version
They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.

Darby Bible Translation
They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not;

Young's Literal Translation
A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:2
You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as you were led.

1 Kings 18:26
And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped on the altar which was made.

Psalm 115:6
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

Isaiah 44:13
The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

Jeremiah 10:5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4-7. (Compare Isa 40:18-20; 44:9-20).