Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Tout homme devient stupide par sa science, Tout orfèvre est honteux de son image taillée; Car ses idoles ne sont que mensonge, Il n'y a point en elles de souffle,
KJV
Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
r, one contrary is not the cause of the other. But wisdom is the cause of folly; for it is written ( Jer. 10:14 ): "Every man is become a fool for knowledge," and wisdom is a kind of knowledge. Moreover, it is written ( Is. 47:10 ): "Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, this hath deceiv…
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