Jeremiah 10:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Man

Brutish in his knowledge

Isaiah 45:16

And

Psalm 115:4

Psalm 135:16

Habakkuk 2:18

General references

Romans 1:22

Bible References

Man

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

Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image, And there is no breath in them.

Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one -- seeking God.

A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --

Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

They lift him up on the shoulder, They carry him, and cause him to rest in his place, And he standeth, from his place he moveth not, Yea, one crieth unto him, and he answereth not, From his adversity he saveth him not.

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

Brutish in his knowledge

Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image, And there is no breath in them.

Ashamed are all servants of a graven image, Those boasting themselves in idols, Bow yourselves to him, all ye gods.

Removed backward -- utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, 'Ye are our gods.'

Lo, all his companions are ashamed, As to artisans -- they are of men, All of them gather together, they stand up, They fear, they are ashamed together.

They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.

And

Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,

A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?

General references

Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth.

a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

professing to be wise, they were made fools,