Every man is brutish in his knowledge— Or, according to some, Every man is made foolish by his knowledge. "The most skilful maker of statues and idols is convinced hereby of his folly; for if he were truly wise, how could he worship any thing so weak and vain?" What follows seems to favour this interpretation. See Jeremiah 10:8.
Verse Jeremiah 10:14. _EVERY MAN IS BRUTISH_] נבער _nibar_, is a boor, acts as a brute, who may suppose that a _stock_ of a _tree_, formed _like a_ _man_, may be an intellectual being; and therefore...
IN HIS KNOWLEDGE - Rather, “without knowledge; i. e., on comparing his powerless idols with the terrific grandeur of a tropical thunderstorm the man who can still worship them instead of the Creator i...
CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY, This passage (like Jeremiah 9:23) interrupts the connexion of Jeremiah 9:22 and Jeremiah 10:17; its denunciation of the idols of the heathen as utterly futile for good or evil r...
CONFOUNDED. put to shame. BREATH. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
Jeremiah 10:1-16. The folly of idolatry It is now generally recognised that this passage is a later insertion, for (_a_) it breaks the connexion between Jeremiah 9:1-22 and Jeremiah 10:17 ff.; while...
See summary at commencement of the ch....
Repeated Jeremiah 51:15-19....
_is become brutish and is without knowledge_ or, as mg. _is too brutish to know_. MT. is open to either rendering, that of R.V. text being preferable. _is put to shame_ by the contrast between Jehova...
B. The Incomparable God of Israel Jeremiah 10:6-16 TRANSLATION (6) There is none like You O LORD; great are You and great is Your name in power. (7) Who would not fear You, O King of the nations; for...
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. EVERY MAN - every idol-maker. IN HIS KNO...
1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...
IN _his_ KNOWLEDGE] RV '_and is_ without knowledge.'...
BRUTISH IN HIS KNOWLEDGE. — Literally, _from knowing,_ i.e., _too brutish to know,_ or, as some take it, _brutish without knowledge,_ overwhelmed and astounded, so that the power of knowing fails. EV...
נִבְעַ֤ר כָּל ־אָדָם֙ מִ דַּ֔עַת הֹבִ֥ישׁ כָּ
CHAPTER VI THE IDOLS OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL Jeremiah 10:1 THIS fine piece is altogether isolated from the surrounding context, which it interrupts in a very surprising manner. Neither...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...
Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...
Every man is (h) senseless in [his] knowledge: every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. (h) The more man thinks to do...
_Knowledge. If it were real, he would see the vanity of idols, ver. 8. (Calmet)_...
This is most striking sermon, and very highly finished, in which the Prophet, in the Lord's name, asserts his divine nature and sovereignty: and then displays the folly of idols. The words are so plai...
Some too refinedly explain the beginning of this verse — that their own subtlety or wisdom, which they arrogate, infatuates men, according to what Paul says, that men become vain in their minds, when...
In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...
EVERY MAN IS BRUTISH IN HIS KNOWLEDGE,.... Or science of making an idol, whether it be of wood, or of gold, or silver, or brass; he is no better than a brute, if he thinks, when he has made it, he has...
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. Ver. 14. _Every man is brutish in his...
_Every man is brutish in his knowledge_ This is spoken of the makers of idols, whose skilfulness as workmen made them foolish enough to attempt to make gods, and who afterward acted still more foolish...
THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...
Every man is brutish in his knowledge, they are all stupid in their skill and understanding, as they fashion their idols; EVERY FOUNDER IS CONFOUNDED BY THE GRAVEN IMAGE, every artist who makes idols...
BRUTISH IS HIS KNOWLEDGE: Or, is more brutish, then to know:...
1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked custom...
EVERY MAN IS BRUTISH IN HIS KNOWLEDGE: some limit it to the makers of these idols, that can employ their arts and wits to no better purpose than to frame such stocks into gods; this suits the next exp...
Jeremiah 10:14 Everyone H120 dull-hearted H1197 (H8738) knowledge H1847 metalsmith H6884 (H8802) shame H3001 (H8689
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ARE NOT TO LEARN THE WAY OF THE NATIONS BECAUSE, WHILE YHWH IS GREAT BEYOND DESCRIBING, THEIR IDOLS ARE UTTERLY FUTILE (JEREMIAH 10:1). This passage, in a sequence of verses, compa...
Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...
Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...
EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...
Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19; Isaiah 42:17; Isaiah 44:11; Isaiah 4
Every man — Every idolator....