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“Every man has become stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image, for his molten images are falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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Verse 17. Every man, and so forth That is, every maker of idols, however he boasts of his knowledge and skill, does but shew himself a fool in pretending to make a god. Challoner. Wisd. 14:18.—By his, or “by default of knowledge;” (a scientia. Bible.) as the Hebrew may also mean. The Babylonians were so confounded, they knew not what to do. Calmet.—Prot. “Every man is brutish by his knowledge.” Marg. or “is more brutish than to know.” Calmet. 10:14. Bible.
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