Good News Translation
But there is no point in offering food to an idol; it can't eat it or smell it. It is just the same with someone whom the Lord has afflicted.

New Revised Standard Version
Of what use to an idol is a sacrifice? For it can neither eat nor smell. So is the one punished by the Lord;

Contemporary English Version
or like a sacrifice to an idol, which cannot eat or smell. If the Lord punishes people by making them sick,

New American Bible
What good is an offering to an idol that can neither eat nor smell? So it is with the one being punished by the Lord,

Douay-Rheims Bible
What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell:

What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell:

Sirach 30:17
Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness.

Sirach 30:18
Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave.

Sirach 30:20
So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity:

Sirach 30:21
He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.