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?
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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