Jeremía 10:14

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14 Sérhver maður stendur undrandi og skilur þetta ekki, sérhver gullsmiður hlýtur að skammast sín fyrir líkneski sitt, því að hin steyptu líkneski hans eru tál og í þeim er enginn andi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

man: Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 51:17, Jeremiah 51:18, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 92:6, Psalms 94:8, Proverbs 30:2, Isaiah 44:18-20, Isaiah 46:7, Isaiah 46:8, Romans 1:22, Romans 1:23

brutish in his knowledge: or, more brutish than to know, founder. Jeremiah 51:17, Psalms 97:7, Isaiah 42:17, Isaiah 44:11, Isaiah 45:16

and: Psalms 115:4-8, Psalms 135:16-18, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:4 - General Exodus 34:17 - General 1 Kings 14:9 - thou hast gone 2 Kings 19:18 - for they were Psalms 40:4 - as turn Psalms 96:5 - For Isaiah 1:3 - but Israel Isaiah 19:11 - brutish Isaiah 41:24 - ye are Isaiah 44:9 - make Isaiah 45:20 - they Isaiah 46:6 - lavish Jeremiah 2:5 - walked Jeremiah 3:23 - in vain Jeremiah 10:21 - the pastors Jeremiah 13:25 - trusted Jeremiah 16:19 - Surely Ezekiel 24:12 - wearied Hosea 8:6 - the workman Jonah 2:8 - General Acts 14:15 - from Acts 19:26 - that they Romans 1:21 - but became Romans 1:25 - into a lie Romans 10:19 - foolish 1 Corinthians 8:4 - we know Revelation 9:20 - and idols Revelation 13:15 - life

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 made a god: or, "because of knowledge" w; for want of it; being without the knowledge of God and divine things, he is like the beasts that perish, Psalms 49:20:

every founder is confounded by the graven image; or put to shame on account of it; since, after all his art, and care, and trouble, in melting and refining, and casting it into a form, it is no more than a piece of gold, or silver, or brass, and has no deity, nor anything like it, in it:

for his molten image is falsehood; it is a lie, when it is said to be a god; and it deceives those who worship it, and place any confidence in it. Kimchi renders it, "his covering" x. The covering of the idol with gold and silver, with blue and purple, as in Jeremiah 10:4, is all a piece of deceit, to impose upon the people, and lead them into idolatry:

and there is no breath in them; they are mere stocks and stones, lifeless and inanimate creatures; they have neither life themselves, nor can they give it to others.

w מדעת "propter scientiam", Pagninus, Montanus; "a scientia", Calvin, Grotius, Schmidt. x נסכו "tectio, [sive] obductio ejus", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 is destitute of knowledge.

Every founder ... - Or, “every goldsmith is put to shame etc.” He has exhausted his skill on what remains an image.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 shuns the form as though it had life. See Isaiah 44:10-11. Of which verses, by the way, Dr. Blayney gives the following version to correct that of Bishop Lowth: -

Isaiah 44:10; Isaiah 44:10. Who hath formed a god?

Or set up a graven image that profiteth not?

Isaiah 44:11. Behold, all that are connected with it shall be

ashamed,

And the artificers, they above all men!

They shall assemble all of them; they shall stand

forth;

They shall fear; they shall be ashamed at the same

time.

"That is, while they stand before the image they have set up, and worship it with a religious dread, the glaring absurdity of their conduct shall lead to their shame and disgrace."

With due deference to this learned man, I think this interpretation too refined.