Jeremiah 10:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

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  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 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.
  • Hab 2:18 : 18 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?
  • Zech 10:2 : 2 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.
  • Rom 1:21-22 : 21 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. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
  • Jer 51:17-18 : 17 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. 18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 ¶ 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.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
  • Ps 135:18 : 18 They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
  • Isa 44:19 : 19 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?
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 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.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    79%

    14Every 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.

    15They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17Every 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.

    18They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • 29Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9¶ They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

    10Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?

    11Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together.

  • 28For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

  • Jer 10:3-5
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    75%

    3For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

    4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

    5They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

  • 4Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Ps 135:15-18
    4 verses
    75%

    15¶ The idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

    16They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

    17They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths.

    18They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18What 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?

    19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it.

  • 8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

  • 9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

    8They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

  • 8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?

  • 22For 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.

  • 16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.

  • Jer 8:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

    9The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

  • 6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

  • 4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

  • 27Saying 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.

  • 8[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

  • 24¶ The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly.

  • Isa 40:17-20
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    71%

    17All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

    18¶ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

    19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

    20He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.

  • 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

  • 12¶ 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.

  • 4Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

  • 6They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

  • 6For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • 18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • 8¶ The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.

  • 24Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.

  • 1¶ To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.

  • 15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.

  • 7Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.

  • 21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

  • 6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.