But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
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Gill's Exposition
But they are altogether brutish and foolish,.... In comparison of the Lord, there is no knowledge and wisdom in them, this is a certain fact; they are verily brutish and foolish; or they are one and…
Barnes' Notes
Brutish - Jer 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…
The prophet Isaiah, when he prophesied of the captivity in Babylon, added warnings against idolatry and largely exposed the sottishness of idolaters, not only because the temptations in Babylon would…
Cambridge Bible
together rather, all together, one and all.
the instruction … a stock lit. the instruction of idols is wood, i.e. "is no better than the idol itself: idolatry is destitute of moral or spiritual…
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