The idea is, which we have alluded to, that everything obeys God except His choice creation, which is man, and man, because of his rebellion, “Is brutish by his knowledge.” The phrase, “Every founder is confounded by the graven image,” means that the worshiper of idols becomes like the idols. “His molten image is falsehood” and, therefore, this “brutish man” is a lie and, therefore, lives a lie. Such is the world without God! The phrase, “And there is no breath in them,” refers to everything other
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