Jeremiah 10:3
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
American King James Version (AKJV)
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
American Standard Version (ASV)
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Webster's Revision
For 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 ax.
World English Bible
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
English Revised Version (ERV)
For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
Definitions for Jeremiah 10:3
Clarke's Jeremiah 10:3 Bible Commentary
The customs of the people are vain - חקות chukkoth; the statutes and principles of the science are vain, empty, and illusory. They are founded in nonsense, ignorance, idolatry, and folly.
One cutteth a tree out of the forest - See the notes on Isaiah 40:19 (note), and Isaiah 44:9 (note), etc., which are all parallel places and where this conduct is strongly ridiculed.
Barnes's Jeremiah 10:3 Bible Commentary
The customs - Better, as the marg, "the ordinances," established institutions, "of the peoples, i. e." pagan nations.
