Jeremiah 8:8 - Modern English Version

⁸ How do 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.

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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

For an empty-headed man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man.

Job 12:20

He removes speech from the trusted ones and takes away the understanding of the aged.

Psalm 147:19

He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their father.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against Me.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. For the law will not be lost 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 not give heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 19:7

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives. And their corpses I will give to be food for the fowl of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?” And those who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 48:14

How do you say, “We are mighty and strong men for the war”?

Hosea 8:12

I have written for him the great things of My law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

Matthew 15:6

will be free from honoring his father or his mother.’ So you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

John 9:41

Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.