'Stock' in the Bible
Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.
And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall be fruitful;
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us!
But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God: