Jeremiah 10:8 - Common English Bible

But they are both foolish and silly; they offer nothing because they are mere wood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish. Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood [it is a teaching of falsity, emptiness, futility]!

American Standard Version (1901)

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood.