For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
KJV
Hebrew original
כִּֽי חֻקּ֥וֹת הָֽ/עַמִּ֖ים הֶ֣בֶל ה֑וּא כִּֽי עֵץ֙ מִ/יַּ֣עַר כְּרָת֔/וֹ מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יְדֵ֥י חָרָ֖שׁ בַּֽ/מַּעֲצָֽד
Louis Segond 1910
Car les coutumes des peuples ne sont que vanité. On coupe le bois dans la forêt; La main de l'ouvrier le travaille avec la hache;
KJV
For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Liber Enoch
Apocalypsis Enochi
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Fragmenta In Jeremiam (In Catenis)
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Martin of Leon
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