Habakkuk 2:18
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
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?
Note maker of…: Heb. fashioner of his fashion
“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 graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- profiteth
- Isaiah 37:38; Isaiah 42:17; Isaiah 44:9, 10; Isaiah 45:16, 20; Isaiah 46:1, 2, 6–8; Jeremiah 2:27, 28; Jeremiah 10:3–5; Jeremiah 50:2; Romans 6:21
- a teacher
- Jeremiah 10:8, 14, 15; Jonah 2:8; Zechariah 10:2; Romans 1:23–25; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11; 1 Timothy 4:1, 2; Revelation 13:11–15; Revelation 19:20
- that the
- Psalm 115:4–8; Psalm 135:15–18; Isaiah 1:31; Isaiah 44:14–20
- maker of his work
- Heb. fashioner of his fashion. dumb.
- 1 Corinthians 12:2