Jeremiah 8:8 - 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.

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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?

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.

Jeremiah 8:8 Tagairtí Cros

Job 11:12

A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

Job 12:20

He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.

Psalm 147:19

Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.

Isaiah 43:27

Thy first father sinned: and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Jeremiah 19:7

And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their enemies and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? And they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against 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 senseless children. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 48:14

How do you say: We are valiant, and stout men in battle?

Hosea 8:12

I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.

Matthew 15:6

And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.

Romans 1:22

For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.