Jeremiah 8:8 Cross References - Rotherham

⁸ How, can ye say, Wise, are, we, And, the law of Yahweh, is with us? But indeed, lo! falsely, hath dealt the false pen of the scribes!

¹² Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success; ¹³ Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:

¹² But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass’s colt, is born a man!

²⁰ Setting aside the speech of the trusty, and, the discernment of elders, He taketh away:

¹⁹ Declaring his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his regulations, unto Israel.

⁶ The crown of old men, consists of children’s children, and the adornment of children, is their fathers.

¹ Alas! for them who ordain iniquitous decrees,––And, busy writers, who make a business of writing, mischief: ² Turning aside, from judgment, the poor, And robbing, of justice, the oppressed of my people,––So that, widows, become, their spoil, And, of the fatherless, they make prey.

¹² I have been wont to write for him the myriad things of my law,––Like something alien, have they been accounted.

⁶ in nowise, shall honour his father or his mother––and so ye have cancelled, the word of God, for the sake of your, tradition.

⁴¹ Jesus said unto them––If, blind, ye had been, ye had not had sin; but, now, ye say, We see, your sin, abideth.

²² Professing to be wise, they were made foolish,

¹⁷ If, however, thou, art taking the name of Jew, and resting thyself upon law, and boasting in God, ¹⁸ And art taking note of his will, and testing the things that differ––when receiving oral instruction out of the law, ¹⁹ Art persuaded, moreover, that, thou thyself, art––a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, ²⁰ A trainer of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the forming of knowledge and truth in the law,–– ²¹ Thou, therefore, that art teaching someone else, thyself, art thou not teaching? Thou that proclaimest––Do not steal! Art thou, stealing? ²² That sayest––Do not commit adultery! Art thou, committing adultery? That abhorrest sacrilege, Art thou, robbing temples? ²³ That in law dost boast, Through the transgression of the law, art thou dishonouring God? ²⁴ For the name of God, because of you, is defamed among the nations,––even as it is written. ²⁵ For, circumcision, indeed, profiteth––if, law, thou be practising; but, if thou be a transgressor of law, thy circumcision, hath become, uncircumcision ²⁶ If then, the uncircumcision, be guarding the righteous requirement of the law, shall not, his uncircumcision, as circumcision be reckoned?–– ²⁷ And the uncircumcision by nature, completing the law, shall judge, thee, who, notwithstanding letter and circumcision, art a transgressor of law! ²⁸ For, not he who is one in appearance, is a Jew, nor is, that which is such in appearance in flesh, circumcision; ²⁹ But, he who is one in secret, is a Jew,––and, [that is], circumcision, which is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter,––whose, praise, is not of men, but of God.

¹⁸ Let no one be deceiving himself:––if anyone imagineth himself to be wise among you, in this age, let him become foolish, that he may become wise; ¹⁹ For, the wisdom of this world, is, foolishness with God; for it is written––He that taketh the wise in their knavery,–– ²⁰ And again––The Lord taketh note of the speculations of the wise, that they are vain.