Verse 3
The customs of the people are vain - חקות chukkoth ; the statutes and principles of the science are vain, empty, and illusory. They are founded in nonsense, ignorance, idolatry, and folly.
One cutteth a tree out of the forest - See the notes on Isaiah 40:19 ; (note), and Isaiah 44:9 ; (note), etc., which are all parallel places and where this conduct is strongly ridiculed.
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