Psalm 115:7 They have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

◄ Psalm 115:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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