Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is become a fool for knowledge every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The 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.

In Context

13At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the heaven, and lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings for rain, and bringeth for the wind out of his treasures.

15They are vain things and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 5:4And the next day again, when they rose in the morning, they found Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold:

Psalms 92:6O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

Psalms 97:7Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels:

Psalms 115:8For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

Proverbs 30:2I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.

Isaiah 44:11Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for the makers are men: they shall all assemble together, they shall stand and fear, and shall be confounded together.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:2-17

Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord , Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5… Read the whole commentary →

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