Judges 18:24
Good News Translation
Micah answered, "What do you mean, 'What's the matter?' You take my priest and the gods that I made, and walk off What have I got left?"

New Revised Standard Version
He replied, “You take my gods that I made, and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then can you ask me, ‘What is the matter?’”

Contemporary English Version
Micah answered, "You know what's wrong. You stole the gods I made, and you took my priest. I don't have anything left."

New American Bible
“You have taken my god, which I made for myself, and you have gone off with my priest as well,” he answered. “What is left for me? How, then, can you ask me, ‘What do you want?’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?

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Judges 17:13 Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the race of the Levites.

Psalm 115:8 Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

Isaiah 44:18-20 They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart. . . .

Jeremiah 50:38 A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them.

Ezekiel 23:5 And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,

Habakkuk 2:18,19 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols. . . .

Acts 19:26 And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.

Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom.

Context
The Danites Take Micah's Idols
23And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to Michas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry? 24And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?25And the children of Dan said to him: See thou say no more to us, lest men enraged come upon thee, and thou perish with all thy house.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:30
Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?

Judges 17:5
And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

Judges 18:23
And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to Michas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry?

Judges 18:25
And the children of Dan said to him: See thou say no more to us, lest men enraged come upon thee, and thou perish with all thy house.

Judges 18:23
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