Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
And that
Bible References
It is
Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
Job 22:17
Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?
Job 34:9
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
Job 35:3
What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
Psalm 73:8
Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Zephaniah 1:12
And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.
And that
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Joel 2:12
But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:
Zechariah 7:3
And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.