Malachi 3:14
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
Zephaniah 1:12
It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."
Job 21:14-15
They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
Job 22:17
who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
Job 34:9
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'
Job 35:3
That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
Psalm 73:8-13
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
Joel 2:12
"Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
Zechariah 7:3-6
and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.