Thematic Bible: Unprofitable


Thematic Bible




They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:



They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:


Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.

They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.


I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.


They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:




and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.




Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.



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