And none considereth in his heart,.... Or, "and he does not return it to his heart" ; he does not come to himself again, or return to his right mind, but lives and dies under the infatuation; never once revolving it in his mind, pondering within himself what he has done, or is doing, whether right or wrong:neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say; within himself, and reason the matter in his own mind, and thus express himself:I have burnt part of it in the fire; to warm myself with:yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; both heated the oven, and baked bread with it; and also upon the live coals have laid kneaded dough, and baked a cake on them:and I have roasted flesh, and eaten it; made a fire with another part of it, and roasted meat at it, and ate it with great pleasure and satisfaction:and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination?
an idol, which is an abominable thing to God, and to all men of sense and goodness:shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? or "the bud of a tree?" or that which is made out of a tree of my own planting, cutting down, and hewing, part of which has been used to the above purposes; and the remaining lifeless log, shall I worship it as a god?
and yet, though such reasoning might be justly expected from a man that is a reasonable creature, sottish are idolaters, that they seem to be quite deprived of their rational powers, or at least these are disused by them.
wbl la byvy alw "et non reducet ad cor suum", Pagninus, Montanus; "reducit", Piscator.