Verse 8
They that make them are like unto them ,.... As stupid as the matter of which they are made; as sottish and as senseless as the idols themselves, see Isaiah 44:9 . Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it as a petition, "let them that make them be like unto them"; and so the Targum, the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions: they liked not to retain God in their knowledge, let them be given up to a reprobate mind, to a mind void of all sense and judgment; and which indeed is their case, Romans 1:28 .
So is everyone that trusteth in them ; more especially they that worship them: for an artificer may make them for gain, and have no faith in them; but a worshipper places confidence in them. Or this clause may be explanative of the former, and be rendered, even "every one", &c.; for "to make" sometimes signifies to serve and worship, Exodus 32:35 .
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