Verse Comparison: Jeremiah 10:8
American Standard Version
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Amplified® Bible
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]!
Contemporary English Version
Idols are worthless, and anyone who worships them is a fool!
Darby English Version
But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
Good News Bible
All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?
King James Version
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
New American Standard Bible
But they are altogether stupid and foolish {In their} discipline of delusion--their idol is wood!
New International Version
They are all senseless and foolish;
they are taught by worthless wooden idols.
New King James Version
But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish;
A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
But they seem altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion--their idol consists of wood!
Revised Standard Version
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!
Young's Literal Translation
And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.