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

谁制造神像，铸造无益的偶像？

谁制造神像，铸造偶像？这些都是无益的。

谁制造神像，铸造偶像？这些都是无益的。

制造神像、雕刻无益偶像的是谁？

谁制造神像，或铸造偶像，不想得到益处呢？

谁塑造了神像、铸造了毫无益处的偶像呢？

誰製造神像，鑄造無益的偶像？

誰製造神像，鑄造偶像？這些都是無益的。

誰製造神像，鑄造偶像？這些都是無益的。

製造神像、雕刻無益偶像的是誰？

誰製造神像，或鑄造偶像，不想得到益處呢？

誰製造神像，鑄造無用的雕像呢？

誰塑造了神像、鑄造了毫無益處的偶像呢？

誰造神像、或鑄無益之偶、

誰鑄無益之偶像、以像上帝哉、

誰作神像、鑄無益之偶像、

Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing?

People make statues of gods. But those gods can’t do any good.

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

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

Who makes a god or casts a metal image that benefits no one?

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no benefit?

Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?

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

Who makes a god or casts a metal image for no profit?

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

Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.”

And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,“ It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made. It was ninety feet tall and nine feet wide. He erected it on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar said to them,“ Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my gods and that you don’t pay homage to the golden statue that I erected?

Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“ an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“ there is no God but one.”