What profits it the graven image, that they have graven it? [one] has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
LXX2012
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit it the graven image, that they have graven it? [one] has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
Parallel Translations
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumme idoles.
Cross References
Jeremiah 10:8Isaiah 44:9–101 Corinthians 12:2Zechariah 10:2Jeremiah 2:27–28Isaiah 42:17Isaiah 45:16Psalms 135:15–18Psalms 115:4–8Jonah 2:8Isaiah 45:202 Thessalonians 2:9–11Jeremiah 10:14–15Isaiah 46:6–8Isaiah 37:38
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