Isaiah 41:28-29

41:28 I look, but there is no one,

among them there is no one who serves as an adviser,

that I might ask questions and receive answers.

41:29 Look, all of them are nothing, ¹ 

their accomplishments are nonexistent;

their metal images lack any real substance. ² 

[41:29]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text has אָוֶן (’aven, “deception,” i.e., “false”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has אין (“nothing”), which forms a better parallel with אֶפֶס (’efes, “nothing”) in the next line. See also 40:17 and 41:12.

[41:29]  ² tn Heb “their statues are wind and nothing”; NASB “wind and emptiness”; NIV “wind and confusion.”