idols] The word signifies dung: such are idols, base things, or dunghill deities: and as dung offends a mans eyes and nose, so do idols offend God; yet idolaters will make their hearts temples for them. put the stumbling-block] They are not onely idolaters in heart, but also worship their filthy idols openly, seeking out objects and baits fitting to nourish and kindle that wicked inclination to idolatry, and catching occasion to fulfill it. See Zephaniah 1:3. Or they themselves, by their sinnes, will be the causers of their own ruine, Chap. 18. 30. should I be enquired of at all by them] Being such, is it not a meere hypocrisie and scoffe in them, to come to me to ask for help and counsell, in their distresse, seeing their hearts are separate from me, and being the onely causers of the evils which they suffer? Other say, and shall I answer them when they seek me?