Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Who would shape a god or cast an image that profits 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?
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?
Julia Smith Translation
Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting 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
Interlinear
Yatsar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 44:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Idolatry Is Ridiculous
9 Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame. 10 Who would shape a god or cast an image that profits nothing? 11 To be sure, all who associate with it will be put to shame; and as for the craftsmen, they are only human. Let them all gather together and take their stand. Then let them be terrified they will be humiliated together.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 10:5
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They can't speak! They must always be carried because they can't walk! Don't be afraid of them because they can do no harm, nor can they do any good."
Habakkuk 2:18
"Where is the benefit in owning a carved image, that motivates its maker to carve it? It is only a cast image a teacher that lies because the engraver entrusts himself to his carving, crafting speechless idols.
Acts 19:26
You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.
1 Kings 12:28
So the king sought some advice and then built two golden calves and announced, "It's too difficult for you to travel to Jerusalem. So here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!"
Isaiah 41:29
See, none of them exist, and their deeds are nothing. Their metal images are only wind and confusion.'"
Daniel 3:1
Some time later, king Nebuchadnezzar built a golden statue, making it 60 cubits high and six cubits wide. He set it up in the Dura Valley within the province of Babylon.
Daniel 3:14
Nebuchadnezzar asked them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don't worship my gods and that you don't worship the golden statue that has been set up?
1 Corinthians 8:4
Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God.