Psalms 115:5
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
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Gill's Exposition
They have mouths, but they speak not,.... These idols are carved with mouths, but they make no use of them; if any cry to them for they cannot answer them, nor save them from their troubles. Baal's…
They have mouths ... - They are shaped like people, but have none of the attributes of intelligent beings.
Sufficient care is here taken to answer both the pretensions of self and the reproaches of idolaters.
I. Boasting is here for ever excluded, Psa 115:1. Let no opinion of our own merits have any room…