The rhetorical question—'Who would fashion a god or cast an image that profits nothing?'—mocks the absurdity of idol production. The use of 'profits nothing' suggests practical futility: idols offer no return on investment of labor and resources. The question structure implies that no rational person would engage in such activity, establishing idolatry as fundamentally irrational. This verse suggests that idol-making persists not through rational conviction but through stubborn willfulness or demonic delusion.

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