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 an idol to no profit?

King James Version

Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Holman Bible

Who makes a god or casts a metal image
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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 62

a god
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

or molten
נסך 
Nacak 
Usage: 25

פּסל 
Pecel 
Usage: 31

יעל 
Ya`al 
Usage: 23

References

Easton

Fausets

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.


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.

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