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They have ears, but they can`t hear; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.
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The Lifelessness of Idols
Commentators emphasize the complete lifelessness of idols. They have ears but cannot hear and mouths but cannot breathe. Scholars like John Gill point out the absurdity of humans, who possess the breath of life from God, worshipping statues that lack even this basic sign of life.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold ... - To show more fully the propriety of praising God, and him alone as God, the psal…
19th Century
Baptist
The original conveys the idea that those who make such gods grow to be like them; they are continually becoming more and more like them. They becom…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They have ears, but they hear not (See Gill on Psalms 115:6);
neither is there [any] bre…
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These verses arm believers against idolatry and all false worship, by showing what sort of gods pagans worshipped. The more deplorable the conditio…
