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
General references
Bible References
Man
Jeremiah 10:8
The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
Jeremiah 51:17
All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
Psalm 14:2
The Lord looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.
Psalm 92:6
The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.
Psalm 94:8
Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?
Proverbs 30:2
Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;
Isaiah 44:18
They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.
Isaiah 46:7
They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.
Romans 1:22
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
Brutish in his knowledge
Jeremiah 51:17
All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
Psalm 97:7
All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.
Isaiah 42:17
Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, 'You are our gods.'"
Isaiah 44:11
Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame.
Isaiah 45:16
They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.
And
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are made of silver and gold -- they are man-made.
Psalm 135:16
They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,
Habakkuk 2:18
What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?
General references
Exodus 20:4
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
Exodus 34:17
You must not make yourselves molten gods.
Isaiah 45:16
They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.
Jonah 2:8
Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
Romans 1:22
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools