Isaiah 44:10

The Darby Translation

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

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?

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?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge?

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 They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know;—that they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? ¹¹ Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen are but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up: they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together. ¹² The iron-smith [hath] a chisel, and he worketh in the coals, and he fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm;—but he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he hath not drunk water, and he is faint. ¹³ The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house. ¹⁴ When he heweth him down cedars, he taketh also a holm-oak and a terebinth—he chooseth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh [it] grow. ¹⁵ And it shall be for a man to burn, and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; he kindleth it also, and baketh bread; he maketh also a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. ¹⁶ He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he is warm, and saith, Aha, I am become warm, I have seen the fire. ¹⁷ And with the remainder thereof he maketh a god, his graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my god. ¹⁸ They have no knowledge, and understand not; for he hath plastered their eyes, that they may not see; and their hearts, that they may not understand.

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
And he said, Far be it from me to do so! The man in whose hand the cup has been found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.

Genesis 44:24
And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Genesis 44:25
And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.

Genesis 44:33
And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;

Exodus 22:3
If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold 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.