Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 5:4

4 Therefore I said , surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their GOD.

Or perhaps I said with my self, not possibly, that he thought so, but that he might thus express himself, as men use to speak.

Poor low-spirited, or of the meanest rank among the vulgar, understand but little, either men of greater ignorance, Iohn 7.49. and therefore said not to know the way of the Lord, see chap. 8.7. being better skilled in Fields and Vineyards, then in the Law; or less Conscience, then the better sort may be and therefore said to be foolish, or infatuated, or put upon greater temptation by reason of their poverty, Prov. 30.9. ⸪ The methods or ways of his Providence, the usual manner of his dealings, so Iudgment is to be taken here for the same with wayes, 1 Sam. 2.13. as it is also chap. 8.7.