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Jer 10:14 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

man		Jer 10:8; Jer 51:17,18; Psa 14:2; Psa 92:6; Psa 94:8; Pro 30:2; Isa 44:18-20; Isa 46:7,8; Rom 1:22,23
brutish in his knowledge		or, more brutish than to know
founder		Jer 51:17; Psa 97:7; Isa 42:17; Isa 44:11; Isa 45:16
and		Psa 115:4-8; Psa 135:16-18; Hab 2:18,19

Correlating Passages

man

	Jer 10:8	But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
	Jer 51:17	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.
	Jer 51:18	They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
	Psa 14:2	The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.
	Psa 92:6	A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
	Psa 94:8	Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?
	Pro 30:2	Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.
	Isa 44:18	They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.
	Isa 44:19	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?
	Isa 44:20	He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?
	Isa 46:7	They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
	Isa 46:8	Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring [it] again to mind, O ye transgressors.
	Rom 1:22	Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
	Rom 1:23	And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

founder

	Jer 51:17	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.
	Psa 97:7	Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all [ye] gods.
	Isa 42:17	They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods.
	Isa 44:11	Behold, 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.
	Isa 45:16	They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.

and

	Psa 115:4	Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
	Psa 115:5	They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
	Psa 115:6	They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
	Psa 115:7	They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
	Psa 115:8	They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
	Psa 135:16	They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
	Psa 135:17	They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths.
	Psa 135:18	They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
	Hab 2:18	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?
	Hab 2:19	Woe 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 10:14," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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