Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

But they are altogether stupid and foolish
In their discipline of delusion—their idol is wood!

King James Version

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Holman Bible

They are both stupid and foolish,
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!

International Standard Version

Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

בּער 
Ba`ar 
Usage: 94

and foolish
כּסל 
Kacal 
Usage: 1

the stock
עץ 
`ets 
Usage: 329

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

False Gods Contrasted With The Creator

7 Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like Thee. 8 And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself. 9 Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artisan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple is their clothing, Work of the skilful -- all of them.



Cross References

Isaiah 41:29

Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

Jeremiah 10:14

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.

Habakkuk 2:18

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?

Zechariah 10:2

Because the teraphim did speak iniquity, And the diviners have seen a falsehood, And dreams of the vanity they speak, With vanity they give comfort, Therefore they have journeyed as a flock, They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.

Psalm 115:8

Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

Psalm 135:18

Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

Isaiah 44:19

And none doth turn it back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, 'Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.'

Jeremiah 2:27

Saying to wood, 'My father art thou!' And to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, 'Arise Thou, and save us.'

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

Jeremiah 51:17-18

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.

Hosea 4:12

My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

Romans 1:21-22

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

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