Every man is senseless by his knowledge; every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Every man That is, every maker of idols, however he boasts of his knowledge and skill, does but show himself a fool in pretending to make a god. (Challoner) (Wisdom xiv. 18.)
By his, or "by default of knowledge "(a scientia. Haydock) as the Hebrew may also mean. The Babylonians were so confounded, they knew not what to do. (Calmet)
Protestants, "Every man is brutish by his knowledge. "Marginal note, or "is more brutish than to know "chap. x. 14. (Haydock)
