Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?
New American Standard Bible
Who has fashioned a god or cast
King James Version
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Holman Bible
for no profit?
International Standard Version
Who would shape a god or cast an image that profits nothing?
A Conservative Version
Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?
American Standard Version
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Amplified
Who has made a god or cast an idol which is profitable for nothing?
Bible in Basic English
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
Darby Translation
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
King James 2000
Who fashions a god, or molds a graven image, that is profitable for nothing?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?
Modern King James verseion
Who has formed a god, or melted a graven image that is good for nothing?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?
NET Bible
Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
New Heart English Bible
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
The Emphasized Bible
Who hath fashioned a GOD, Oran image, hath molten? It cannot profit!
Webster
Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
World English Bible
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
Youngs Literal Translation
Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?
Themes
Carving » Idols manufactured by
Idolatry » Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed
Ignorance » Of self » It misleads, fetters and deceives men
Knowledge » Who has no knowledge
Profit » What is not profitable
ignorance of Self » It misleads, fetters and deceives men
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 44:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Idolatry Is Ridiculous
9 They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed. 10 Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing? 11 Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they from man, they shall be gathered together, all of them; they shall stand, they shall tremble, they shall be ashamed together.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 10:5
They are of turned work, as the palm tree, and they shall not speak; being lifted up they shall be lifted up, for they shall not mount up. Ye shall not be afraid of them, for they will not do evil, and also doing good is not with them.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?
Acts 19:26
And ye see and hear that not only Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, changed a sufficient crowd, saying, that they are not gods made by hands:
1 Kings 12:28
And the king will consult and make two calves of gold, and he will say to them, Much for you going up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of them, nothing; their works are no more: wind and emptiness are their libations.
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold; its height sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babel.
Daniel 3:14
Nebuchadnemr answered and said to them, Is it on purpose O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego, ye not serving to my gods, and to the image of gold that I set up, ye not prostrating yourselves?
1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.