Verse 14
His wisdome maketh all men fooles, and confounded be casters of images: for that they cast, is but a vayne thing, and hath no life.
Referenced Verses
- Isa 46:7-8 : 7 Yet must he be taken on mens shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stande, and not moue out of his place: And if one crye vnto hym, he geueth no aunswere, and deliuereth not the man that calleth vpon hym from his trouble. 8 Consider this well, and be ashamed: go into your owne selues.
- Jer 10:8 : 8 They are altogether brutishe and vnwise in this one thing: wood is the teaching of vanitie.
- Jer 51:17-18 : 17 If they be esteemed by their wisdome, all men are become fooles: confounded be all the casters of images, for the thing that they make, is but deceipt, and hath no breath. 18 Uayne is it and an erronious worke, and in the tyme of visitation it shall perishe.
- Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What profiteth the image? for the maker therof hath made it an image and a teacher of lyes, though he that made it trust therin when he maketh dumbe idoles. 19 Wo vnto hym that sayth to the wood, Awake: and to the dumbe stone, Rise vp, it shall teache thee: beholde it is layde ouer with gold and siluer, & there is no breath in it.
- Isa 44:18-20 : 18 Yet men neither consider nor vnderstande, because their eyes be stopped that they can not see, and their heartes that they can not perceaue. 19 They ponder not in their mindes, for they haue neither knowledge nor vnderstanding to thinke thus: I haue brent one peece in the fire, I haue baked bread with the coales thereof, I haue rosted fleshe withall, and eaten it: and I wyll nowe of the residue make an abhominable idoll, and fall downe before a rotten peece of wood. 20 Thus doth he but lose his labour, and his heart whiche is deceaued doth turne hym aside, so that none of them can haue a free conscience to thinke, Do not I erre?
- Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes. 5 They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not. 6 They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not. 7 They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes. 8 They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them.
- Ps 135:16-18 : 16 They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes but they see not. 17 They haue eares and they heare not: yea there is no breath in their mouth. 18 They that make them are lyke vnto them: and euery one that putteth his trust in them.
- Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I am more foolishe then any man, and haue no mans vnderstandyng.
- Isa 42:17 : 17 They are fallen backe, yea and let them be ashamed earnestly that hope in idols, and say to the moulten images, ye are our gods.
- Isa 44:11 : 11 Beholde, all the felowship of them must be brought to confusion, & truely all the workemasters of them are men: they shal all be gathered together, they shall stand, tremble, and be confounded one with another.
- Ps 14:2 : 2 God loked downe from heauen vpon the children of men: to see yf there were any that did vnderstande and seke after the Lorde.
- Ps 92:6 : 6 An vnwise man doth not consider this: and a foole doth not vnderstande it.
- Ps 94:8 : 8 Understande ye vnwyse among the people: O ye fooles, when wyll ye be well aduised?
- Ps 97:7 : 7 Confounded be all they that do seruice vnto carued images: and that do glorie in idols, but O gods, you all shall worshyp hym.
- Isa 45:16 : 16 Confounded are they all and put to dishonour, thei are gone hence together with shame, euen the makers of images.
- Rom 1:22-23 : 22 When they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: 23 And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes.