Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 115:5

5 They have mouths, but they speak not , eyes have they, but they see not.

For although the blind Heathen are by their Idolatrous Priests made to believe otherwise concerning their Idols, in regard of the Spirits which they pretend to dwell in them, yet this is the truth of the matter, and confirmed by long and constant experience, that they are but vain and senceless things, they can neither speak in answer to your prayers or inquiries, nor see what you do or what you want; nor hear your petitions; nor smell your incenses and sacrifices; nor handle or use their hands either to take any thing from you, or to give any thing to you; nor so much as mutte[illegible: 1+ letters], or give the least signification of their apprehension of your condition and concerns.