Gods made of wood and overlaid with silver and gold: See verse 39; the same phrase is used here to describe the images.

Thieves and robbers are certainly close enough in meaning to offer translators the option of combining them. The first term refers to people who steal things. The second term has more of a sense of looting and plundering, in other words “taking other people’s possessions by force.”

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Shorter Books of the Deuterocanon. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2006. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.