Jeremiah 8:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

The wise men are ... dismayed - confounded.

They have rejected the word of the Lord; and - and as the inevitable, necessary consequence, "what wisdom is in them?"

What wisdom - literally, the wisdom of what? i:e., wisdom in what respect? The Word of the Lord being the only true source of wisdom (Psalms 119:98-100; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 9:10, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"). 10-12. Repeated from Jeremiah 6:12-15. (See a similar repetition, Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 14:19).

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them - succeed to the possession of them.

Jeremiah 8:9

9 The wiseb men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?