Jérémie 5:4

Louis Segond

Je disais: Ce ne sont que les petits; Ils agissent en insensés, parce qu'ils ne connaissent pas la voie de l'Eternel, La loi de leur Dieu.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et j'ai dit : certainement ce ne sont que les plus abjects, qui se sont montr�s fous, parce qu'ils ne connaissent point la voie de l'Eternel, le droit de leur Dieu.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Je disais: mais ce ne sont que les petits; ils se montrent insens�s, parce qu'ils ne connaissent pas la voie de l'�ternel, le droit de leur Dieu.

Darby's French Translation
Et j'ai dit: Voil�, ce sont de pauvres gens, ce sont des fous; car ils ne connaissent pas la voie de l'�ternel, le jugement de leur Dieu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 4:22, Jeremiah 7:8, Jeremiah 8:7, Isaiah 27:11, Isaiah 28:9-13, Hosea 4:6, Matthew 11:5, John 7:48, John 7:49

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 3:5 - their nobles Psalms 49:2 - General Isaiah 2:9 - the mean Isaiah 5:15 - the mean Isaiah 29:12 - I am not Isaiah 59:4 - calleth Jeremiah 5:21 - O foolish Jeremiah 6:10 - To whom Jeremiah 42:1 - from Hosea 4:1 - nor knowledge Amos 3:10 - they Micah 3:1 - Is it Zechariah 11:7 - General Mark 7:18 - General Luke 6:24 - woe Luke 14:18 - all 2 Peter 2:12 - as natural

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I said, surely these are poor, they are foolish,.... The prophet, observing that reproofs and corrections in providence had no effect upon the people, he thought within himself that surely the reason must be, because these people are poor, and in low circumstances in the world, and are so busy in their worldly employments to get bread for their families, that they were not at leisure to attend unto divine things; nor of capacity to receive instruction and correction by providences; therefore it is they were so foolish, stupid, and infatuated:

for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God; either the way which God takes in the salvation of the sons of men, and in justifying of them, which is revealed in his word; or that which he prescribes them to walk in, in his law, even the way of truth and righteousness, and for failure of which he judges and condemns them; but of these things they were ignorant; see John 7:48, not that this is observed in excuse for them, but in order to introduce what follows; and to show that this depravity, stupidity, and ignorance, obtained among all sort of people, high and low, rich and poor.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore - More simply “and.”

They are foolish - Or, they act foolishly (see Numbers 12:11), not having that knowledge which would enable them to guide their ways with discretion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 5:4. These are poor — They are ignorant; they have no education; they know no better.