Isaiah 44:10

Myles Coverdale Bible

Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Who makes a god or casts a metal imagethat benefits no one?

Hebrew Names Version
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

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

English Standard Version
Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?

New American Standard Bible
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no benefit?

New Century Version
Who made these gods? Who made these useless idols?

Amplified Bible
Who has made a god or cast an idol which is profitable for nothing?

World English Bible
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?

Legacy Standard Bible
Who has formed a god or cast a graven image to no profit?

Berean Standard Bible
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

Contemporary English Version
Why make an idol or an image that can't do a thing?

Complete Jewish Bible
Who would fashion a god or cast an image that profits no one anything?

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Who made these false gods? Who covered these useless statues?

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore let them be ashamed, those who make gods or graven and molten images that are profitable for nothing.

Good News Translation
It does no good to make a metal image to worship as a god!

Lexham English Bible
Who would form a god and cast an image of which he cannot profit?

Literal Translation
Who has formed a god, or poured out an image to no profit?

American Standard Version
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

Bible in Basic English
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

King James Version (1611)
Who hath formed a God, or moulten a grauen image that is profitable for nothing?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who dare then make a god, or fashion an image that is profitable for nothing?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:

English Revised Version
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who fourmyde a god, and yetide an ymage, not profitable to ony thing?

Update Bible Version
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

Webster's Bible Translation
Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?

New English Translation
Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

New King James Version
Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?

New Living Translation
Who but a fool would make his own god— an idol that cannot help him one bit?

New Life Bible
Who has made a false god or an object of worship that is of no worth?

New Revised Standard
Who would fashion a god or cast an image that can do no good?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who hath fashioned a GOD, Oran image, hath molten? It cannot profit!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?

Revised Standard Version
Who fashions a god or casts an image, that is profitable for nothing?

Young's Literal Translation
Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

Contextual Overview

⁹ Wherfore all caruers of Idols are but vayne, and their laboure lost. They must beare recorde them selues, that (seinge they can nether se ner vnderstonde) they shalbe confounded. ¹⁰ Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge? ¹¹ Beholde all the felashippe of the must be brought to confucion. Let all the workmasters of them come and stonde together from amonge men: they must be abashed and confouded one with another. ¹² The smyth taketh yron, and tempreth it with hote coles, and fashioneth it with hammers, & maketh it wt all the strength of his armes: Yee somtyme he is faynt for very hunger, and so thurstie, that he hath no more power. ¹³ The carpenter (or ymage caruer) taketh me the tymbre, and spredeth forth his lyne: he marketh it with some coloure: he playneth it, he ruleth it, ad squareth it, and maketh it after the ymage of a man, and acordinge to the bewtie of a man: that it maye stonde in the temple. ¹⁴ Morouer, he goeth out to hewe downe Cedre trees: He bringeth home Elmes and okes, and other tymbre of the wodd. Or els the Fyrre trees which he planted himself, ad soch as the rayne hath swelled, ¹⁵ which wodde serueth for me to burne. Of this he taketh and warmeth himself withall: he maketh a fyre of it to bake bred. And after warde maketh a god there of, to honoure it: and an Idol, to knele before it. ¹⁶ One pece he burneth in the fyre, with another he rosteth flesh, that he maye eate roste his bely full: with the thirde he warmeth himself, and saieth: Aha: I am well warmed, I haue bene at the fyre. ¹⁷ And of the residue, he maketh him a god, and an Idol for himself. He kneleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth vnto it, and sayeth: delyuer me, for thou art my god. ¹⁸ Yet men nether considre ner vnderstonde, because their eyes are stopped, that they can not se: and their hertes, that they cannot perceaue.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 12:28, Jeremiah 10:5, Daniel 3:1, Daniel 3:14, Habakkuk 2:18, Acts 19:26, 1 Corinthians 8:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:4 - fashioned Deuteronomy 27:15 - maketh 1 Samuel 12:21 - cannot profit 2 Kings 17:16 - molten images 2 Chronicles 25:15 - which could Isaiah 37:19 - no gods Isaiah 40:19 - General Isaiah 41:24 - ye are Isaiah 44:15 - he maketh a god Jeremiah 16:19 - wherein Zechariah 11:17 - idol Acts 14:15 - from

Cross-References

Genesis 44:17
But he sayde: God forbyd that I shulde do so. The man by whom the cuppe is founde, shall by my seruaunt, but go ye vp in peace vnto youre father.

Genesis 44:24
Then wente we vp vnto thy seruaunt my father, and tolde him my lordes wordes.

Genesis 44:25
Then sayde oure father: Go youre waye agayne, and bye vs a litle foode.

Genesis 44:33
Therfore let thy seruaunt byde here in steade of ye lad, to be my lordes bonde man, and let the lad go vp with his brethren.

Exodus 22:3
But yf the sonne be gone vp vpo him, then hath he committed manslaughter, and he shal dye. A thefe shall make restitucion. Yf he haue nothige, the let him be solde for his theft.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who hath formed a god,.... Who ever made one? was such a thing ever known? or can that be a god which is made or formed? who so mad, foolish and sottish, as to imagine he has made a god? or is it possible for a creature to be the maker of a god? or any so stupid as to fancy he had made one? yet such there were, so void of understanding and reason, and even common sense: "or molten a graven image": first melted it, and cast it into a mould, and then graved and polished it, and called it a god?

that is profitable for nothing? or seeing it "is profitable for nothing", as a god; cannot see the persons, nor hear the prayers, nor relieve the distresses of those that worship it; and therefore it must be great folly indeed to make an image for such a purpose, which answers no end.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who hath formed a god - The Septuagint reads this verse in connection with the close of the previous verse, ‘But they shall be ashamed who make a god, and all who sculpture unprofitable things.’ This interpretation also, Lowth, by a change in the Hebrew text on the authority of a manuscript in the Bodleian library, has adopted. This change is made by reading כי kı̂y instead of מי mı̂y in the beginning of the verse. But the authority of the change, being that of a single MS. and the Septuagint, is not sufficient. Nor is it necessary. The question is designed to be ironical and sarcastic: ‘Who is there,’ says the prophet, ‘that has done this? Who are they that are engaged in this stupid work? Do they give marks of a sound mind? What is, and must be the character of a man that bas formed a god, and that has made an unprofitable graven image?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 44:10. Isaiah 44:9.