Jer 10:3-5 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 3 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 (note), and (note), etc., which are all parallel places and where this conduct is strongly ridiculed.

Jeremiah 10:3-5

Verse 3

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 Isa 40:19 (note), and Isa 44:9 (note), etc., which are all parallel places and where this conduct is strongly ridiculed. Verse 5

They are upright as the palm tree - As straight and as stiff as the trees out of which they are hewn.