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Jeremiah Chapter 10 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
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BBE Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
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DARBY Jeremiah 10:8

But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
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KJV Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
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WBT Jeremiah 10:8

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WEB Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
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YLT Jeremiah 10:8

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Brutish and foolish. In fact, the original meaning of the idolatrous religions had begun, probably, to fade, and the worship of Bel and Nebo had become (as the worship of the Egyptian gods became at a later period) increasingly formal and ritualistic. The stock is a doctrine of vanities; rather, an instruction of vanities; i.e. all that the idols can teach is vanities. Against this is the plural ("vanities," not vanity); it is more natural (and also more in accordance with usage; comp. Genesis 41:26, Hebrew) to render, the instruction of the vanities is wooden ("vanities" has the constant technical sense of "idols;" see Jeremiah 8:19; Jeremiah 14:22; Deuteronomy 32:21; Psalm 31:6). The clause then furnishes a reason for the folly of the heathen; how should they attain to more than a "wooden" knowledge, when the idols themselves are but wood? A bitter truth in an ironical form.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Altogether.--Literally, in one, probably in the sense in one word, in one fact, sc., that which follows in the next clause.The stock is a doctrine of vanities.--Better, inverting the subject and predicate, the teaching of vanities (i.e., of idols) is a word, or is a log. That is all it comes to; that one word is its condemnation.