Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.

New American Standard Bible

Every man is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols;
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame
by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.

International Standard Version

Everyone is stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false. There is no life in them.

A Conservative Version

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

American Standard Version

Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Amplified


Every man has become [like a brute] irrational and stupid, without knowledge [of God];
Every goldsmith is shamed by his carved idols;
For his molten images are frauds and lies,
And there is no breath in them.

Bible in Basic English

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

Darby Translation

Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

King James 2000

Every man is senseless in his knowledge: every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{Everyone} is stupid, {without knowledge}, every goldsmith is ashamed by [his] divine image, for his cast image [is] an illusion, and [there is] no breath in them.

Modern King James verseion

Every man is stupid for lack of knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

His wisdom maketh all men fools. And confounded be all casters of images, for that they cast is but a vain thing, and hath no life.

NET Bible

All these 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.

New Heart English Bible

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

The Emphasized Bible

Every son of earth hath become too brutish to discern, Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame by a graven image, - For a falsehood, is his molten image, Seeing there is no breath in them.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

is brutish
בּער 
Ba`ar 
Usage: 94

דּעת 
Da`ath 
Usage: 91

צרף 
Tsaraph 
Usage: 33

יבשׁ 
Yabesh 
Usage: 69

by the graven image
פּסל 
Pecel 
Usage: 31

נסך נסך 
Necek 
Usage: 64

שׁקר 
Sheqer 
Usage: 113

and there is no breath
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

References

Morish

Context Readings

A Hymn Of Praise To God

13 At the voice his giving a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he will bring the lifting up from the end of the earth; he made lightnings to the rain, and he will bring forth the wind from his treasures. 14 Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them. 15 They are vanity, the work of delusions: in the time of their reviewing they shall perish.



Cross References

Jeremiah 10:8

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

Proverbs 30:2

For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.

Isaiah 42:17

They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.

Jeremiah 51:17-18

Every man was brutish from knowledge; every founder was ashamed from his carved image: for his founding is a falsehood, and no spirit in them.

Psalm 14:2

Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the sons of men, to see is there he understanding, seeking God.

Psalm 92:6

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye foolish, when will ye understand?

Psalm 97:7

All serving a carved thing shall be ashamed, they boasting themselves in nothings; worship to him, all ye Gods.

Psalm 115:4-8

Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

Psalm 135:16-18

A mouth to them, and they shall not speak; eyes to them, and they shall not see;

Isaiah 44:11

Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they from man, they shall be gathered together, all of them; they shall stand, they shall tremble, they shall be ashamed together.

Isaiah 44:18-20

They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.

Isaiah 45:16

They were ashamed and also disgraced, all of them: together they went in shame the workmen of images.

Isaiah 46:7-8

They will lift him up upon the shoulder, they will carry him, they will set him down in his place and he will stand; from his place he shall not depart: also he will cry out to him and he will not answer; he will not save him from his straits

Habakkuk 2:18-19

What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?

Romans 1:22-23

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

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