Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece of wood!
New American Standard Bible
In their discipline of
King James Version
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Holman Bible
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!
A Conservative Version
But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.
American Standard Version
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Amplified
But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish
In their discipline of delusion—their idol is [only] wood [it is ridiculous, empty and worthless]!
Bible in Basic English
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Darby Translation
But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
Julia Smith Translation
And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.
King James 2000
But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{At the same time} they are stupid and foolish, [in the] instruction of idols, it [is] wood.
Modern King James verseion
But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:
NET Bible
The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
New Heart English Bible
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols. it is but a stock.
The Emphasized Bible
But at once, do they become brutish and stupid, - An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!
Webster
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
World English Bible
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Youngs Literal Translation
And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.
Interlinear
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Ba`ar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 10:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
False Gods Contrasted With The Creator
7 Who wouldn't fear you, king of the nations? This is what you deserve! Indeed, among all the wise men of the nations, and throughout all their kingdoms, there is no one like you! 8 Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece of wood! 9 Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. The idols are the work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothing is violet and purple. The idols are all the work of skilled craftsmen.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 41:29
See, none of them exist, and their deeds are nothing. Their metal images are only wind and confusion.'"
Jeremiah 10:14
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.
Habakkuk 2:18
"Where is the benefit in owning a carved image, that motivates its maker to carve it? It is only a cast image a teacher that lies because the engraver entrusts himself to his carving, crafting speechless idols.
Zechariah 10:2
Truly the family idols talk nonsense and the diviners discern lies, describing delusional dreams. Since their comfort is vacuous, they wander off on their own like sheep, because there is no shepherd.
Psalm 115:8
Those who craft them will become like them, as will all those who trust in them.
Psalm 135:18
Those who craft them and all who trust in them will become like them.
Isaiah 44:19
No one stops to think. No one has the knowledge or understanding to think yes to think! "Half of it I burned in the fire. I even baked bread on its coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And am I about to make detestable things from what is left? Am I about to bow down to blocks of wood?"
Jeremiah 2:27
who say to a tree, "You are my father,' and to a stone, "You gave birth to me.' They have turned their back to me, but not their faces. In the time of their trouble, they'll say, "Rise up! Deliver us!'"
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They're stupid children, they have no understanding. They're skilled at doing evil, but how to do good, they don't know."
Jeremiah 51:17-18
Everyone is stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his own idols, for his images are false, and there is no life in them.
Hosea 4:12
My people seek counsel from their piece of wood, and their diviner's rod speaks to them. For a spirit of prostitution causes them to go astray; in their immorality they desert their God.
Romans 1:21-22
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.