Jérémie 10:8

8 Ils sont tous ensemble abrutis et insensés. Ce bois n'enseigne que vanités.

Jérémie 10:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 10:8

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 all so, there is not a wise man among them: or, "in one thing they are brutish" ^F18; namely, in their idolatry; however wise they may be in other respects, in this they are foolish: or, to give no more instances of their brutishness ^F19 and folly, this one is sufficient, even what follows, the stock is a doctrine of vanities;
or what they teach persons, as to worship the trunk of a tree, or any idol of metal, or of wood, is a most vain and foolish thing, and argues gross stupidity and folly, and proves them to be brutish, and without understanding.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (wreby txabw) "in hoc uno Munster", Tigurine version; "et certe in una quadem re obbrutescunt", Piscator. So Jarchi and Abarbinel.
F19 The Talmudists seem to take the word (reb) to have the signification of burning; for the sense of these words being asked, it is replied, there is one thing that burns the wicked in hell; what is it? idolatry; as it is here written, "a doctrine of vanities is the stock."

Jérémie 10:8 In-Context

6 Nul n'est semblable à toi, ô Éternel! Tu es grand, et tu as un grand renom de puissance.

7 Qui ne te craindrait, roi des nations? Car cela t'est dû. Car parmi les plus sages des nations et dans tous leurs royaumes, nul n'est semblable à toi.

8 Ils sont tous ensemble abrutis et insensés. Ce bois n'enseigne que vanités.

9 C'est de l'argent en plaques, apporté de Tarsis, et de l'or d'Uphaz; l'œuvre du sculpteur et des mains de l'orfèvre. La pourpre et l'écarlate sont leur vêtement; tous ils sont l'ouvrage de gens habiles.

10 Mais l'Éternel est le Dieu de vérité; c'est le Dieu vivant et le roi éternel. Devant sa colère la terre tremble, et les nations ne peuvent soutenir son courroux.