Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 8:8 — How 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.
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We   Job 5:12,13; Job 11:12; Job 12:20; Jhn 9:41; Rom 1:22; Rom 2:17-29; 1Cr 3:18-20
the law   Psa 147:19; Hsa 8:12
Lo   Mat 15:6
in vain, etc.   or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood. Pro 17:6; Isa 10:1,2
Correlating Passages
We
Job 5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
Job 5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 11:12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt.
Job 12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Jhn 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 2:17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Rom 2:18 And knowest [his] will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Rom 2:19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
Rom 2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Rom 2:21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
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1Cr 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1Cr 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1Cr 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
the law
Psa 147:19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
Hsa 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
Lo
Mat 15:6 And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
in vain, etc.
Pro 17:6 Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.
Isa 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
Isa 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 8:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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