Jeremiah 8:8 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ How can you say: 'We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?' Truly, the lying pen of the scribes has wrought falsehood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ How can you say, We are wise, and we have the written law of the Lord [and are learned in its language and teachings]? Behold, the truth is, the lying pen of the scribes has made of the law a falsehood (a mere code of ceremonial observances). [Mark 7:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.

Common English Bible

⁸ How can you say, “We are wise; we possess the LORD’s Instruction,” when the lying pen of the scribes has surely distorted it?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.

English Standard Version 2016

⁸ “How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.

Jeremiah 8:8 Tagairtí Cros

Job 11:12

A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass's colt.

Job 12:20

altering the lips of those who speak the truth and sweeping away the teaching of the aged.

Proverbs 17:6

Sons of sons are the crown of old age. And the glory of sons is their fathers.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have betrayed me.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they said: "Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a sermon from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words."

Jeremiah 19:7

And I will scatter the counsel of Judah and of Jerusalem in this place. And I will overthrow them with the sword, in the sight of their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their lives. And I will give their carcasses to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the land as food.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests have not sad: 'Where is the Lord?' And those who held the law did not know me. And the pastors betrayed me. And the prophets prophesied in Baal and followed idols.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my foolish people have not known me. They are foolish and mad sons. They are clever in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say: 'We are strong and robust men of battle?'

Hosea 8:12

I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers.

Matthew 15:6

then he shall not honor his father or his mother.' So have you nullified the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them: "If you were blind, you would not have sin. Yet now you say, 'We see.' So your sin persists."

Romans 1:22

For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.