Verse 21

And do not turn aside: for then you should go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Vik heller ikke av og følg den tomme, som ikke kan hjelpe eller frelse, for den er bare intet.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Og vend dere ikke bort, for da vil dere følge tomme ting som ikke kan gagne eller frelse, for de er tomhet.

• Norsk King James

  Og vend dere ikke bort; for så vil dere jage etter meningsløse ting, som ikke kan gagne eller redde; de er bare tomme.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Vend dere ikke bort for å følge tomme ting som verken kan gagne eller hjelpe, for de er tomhet.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Vend dere ikke til tomme avguder som hverken kan gagne eller frelse dere, for de er tomhet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Og vend dere ikke bort: for da skulle dere følge fåfengte ting, som verken kan gagne eller frelse; for de er tomme.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  la dere ikke lede på avveier, for da vil dere jage etter tomme ting som verken gagner eller frelser – de er forgjeves.»

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Og vend dere ikke bort: for da skulle dere følge fåfengte ting, som verken kan gagne eller frelse; for de er tomme.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Ikke avvik for å følge tomhet, som ikke kan gagne eller redde, for det er tomhet.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Do not turn aside, for you would be following things that are worthless and cannot benefit or deliver you, for they are meaningless.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Vend dere ikke bort for å følge tomme avguder som verken kan gagne eller redde dere, for de er intet.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og viger ikke af; thi (saa følge I) efter forfængelige Ting, som ei gavne eller hjælpe, thi de ere Forfængelighed.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Vend dere ikke bort for å følge tomme ting som ikke kan gagne eller frelse, for de er tross alt tomme.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Vend dere ikke bort; for da vil dere følge etter tomme ting som ikke kan hjelpe eller befri, for de er tomme.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  og vend dere ikke bort til verdiløse ting som ikke gir fordel eller redder, for de er verdiløse.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og vend dere ikke bort etter tomme ting som ikke kan gagne eller fri, for de er tomme.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og hold dere på den rette veien uten å vende dere til de falske gudene som det ikke er noen nytte eller frelse i, for de er falske.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and go not asyde after vanite, for it profyteth you nothinge, and can not delyuer you, in so moch as it is but a vayne thinge.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Neither turne yee backe: for that shoulde be after vaine things which cannot profite you, nor deliuer you, for they are but vanitie)

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Neither turne ye away, for then ye go after vayne thinges, which are not able to profite you, nor deliuer you, for they are but vanitie.)

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they `are' vain,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and turn ye not aside; for [then would ye go] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.

Referenced Verses

• Hab 2:18 : 18 What profit is the carved image that its maker has carved it; the molded image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?
• Jer 10:15 : 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall perish.
• Jer 16:19 : 19 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait upon You, for You have made all these things.
• 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
• Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.
• Isa 46:7 : 7 They carry him upon the shoulder, they bear him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place he shall not move: yes, one shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
• Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?
• Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
• Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
• Deut 11:16 : 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them;
• Deut 32:21 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
• Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see; 6 They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell; 7 They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.
• Isa 41:23-24 : 23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooses you.
• Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
• Isa 44:9-9 : 9 Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?
• Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy.