"But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities."
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They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
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.
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.