4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
4 But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
4 Their gods are metal and wood, handmade in a basement shop:
4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
4 Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 115:4
Commentary on Psalm 115:1-8
(Read Psalm 115:1-8)
Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or in our praises. All the good we do, is done by the power of his grace; and all the good we have, is the gift of his mere mercy, and he must have all the praise. Are we in pursuit of any mercy, and wrestling with God for it, we must take encouragement in prayer from God only. Lord, do so for us; not that we may have the credit and comfort of it, but that they mercy and truth may have the glory of it. The heathen gods are senseless things. They are the works of men's hands: the painter, the carver, the statuary, can put no life into them, therefore no sense. The psalmist hence shows the folly of the worshippers of idols.