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Psalms 94:8
8Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Psalms 94:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
- New International Version (NIV)Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Understand, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise?
Context of Psalms 94:8
6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless, 7And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it]. Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise? 9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? 10He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct — he that teacheth man knowledge?
Read all of Psalms 94Psalms 94:8 word by word
בִּ֭ינוּ בֹּעֲרִ֣ים בָּעָ֑ם וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים מָתַ֥י תַּשְׂכִּֽילוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 94:8
- Psalms 49:19It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.
- Psalms 73:22Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was [as] a beast with thee.
- Psalms 92:6A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.
- Proverbs 12:1Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- Isaiah 27:11When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come [and] set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.
- Jeremiah 8:6I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle.
- Jeremiah 10:8But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
- Romans 3:11there is not the [man] that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.
- Deuteronomy 32:29Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
- Proverbs 1:22How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 8:5O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
Commentaries on Psalms 94:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Understand, ye brutish - These are the same expressions as in Psalm 92:6; (note), on which see the note.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Understand, ye brutish among the people - See Psalm 73:22. The meaning here is, “You who are like the brutes; you who see and understand no more of the character and plans of God than the wild beasts of the desert.” The meaning is, that they did not employ their reason in the case; they acted like beasts, regardless of the consequences of their conduct - as if God would treat people as he does the beasts; as if there were no retribution in the future…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-11The writer of the psalm corrects people for acting foolishly.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. ye brutish--(Compare Psa 73:22; 92:6).Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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