Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for 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?

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?

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?

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 All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded. 10 Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all the fellowship of them must be brought to confusion. Let all the workmasters of them come and stand together from among men: they must be abashed and confounded one with another.


Cross References

Jeremiah 10:5

It standeth as stiff as the palm tree, it can neither speak nor go, but must be borne. Be not ye afraid of such, for they can do neither good nor evil."

Habakkuk 2:18

What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols?

Acts 19:26

Moreover, ye see and hear that not alone at Ephesus: but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be not gods which are made with hands:

1 Kings 12:28

Whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of gold and said unto the people, "Ye shall not need to go any more to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, Israel, which brought you out of the land of Egypt!"

Isaiah 41:29

Lo, wicked are they and vain, with the things also that they take in hand: yea, their images are but wind and emptiness.

Daniel 3:1

Nebuchadnezzar the king caused a golden Image to be made, which was sixty cubits high, and six cubits thick. This he made to be set up in the field of Dura, in the land of Babylon

Daniel 3:14

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake unto them, and said, "What? O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: will not ye serve my gods? Nor bow yourselves to the golden Image, that I have set up?

1 Corinthians 8:4

To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.

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