Malachi 3:14
You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?
Isaiah 58:3
They lament, 'Why don't you notice when we fast? Why don't you pay attention when we humble ourselves?' Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, you oppress your workers.
Zephaniah 1:12
At that time I will search through Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish the people who are entrenched in their sin, those who think to themselves, 'The Lord neither rewards nor punishes.'
Job 21:14-15
So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.
Job 22:17
They were saying to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?'
Job 34:9
For he says, 'It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.'
Job 35:3
But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?'
Psalm 73:8-13
They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.
Joel 2:12
"Yet even now," the Lord says, "return to me with all your heart -- with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!"
Zechariah 7:3-6
by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, "Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?"
James 4:9
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.