Jeremiah 10:8
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
American King James Version (AKJV)
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
American Standard Version (ASV)
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.
Definitions for Jeremiah 10:8
Clarke's Jeremiah 10:8 Bible Commentary
The stock is a doctrine of vanities - Dr. Blayney translates, - "The wood itself is a rebuker of vanities." The very tree out of which the god is hewn demonstrates the vanity and folly of the idolaters; for, can all the art of man make out of a log of wood an animate and intelligent being?
Barnes's Jeremiah 10:8 Bible Commentary
Brutish - Jeremiah 10:21 and foolish Theirs was the brutishness of men in a savage state, little better than mere animals: their folly that of stupidity.
The stock ... - Rather, the instruction of idols is a piece of wood. That is what they are themselves, and "ex nihilo nihil fit" (from nothingness, nothing is made).