Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

If he should set his heart upon man, if he should gather to himself his spirit and his breath;

When he raiseth himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call to him.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself to thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one shall submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the Highest himself shall establish her.

The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, with which he hath girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

For the LORD hath chosen Jacob to himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

He that reproveth a scorner, getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoreth himself, and is destitute of bread.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

The LORD hath made all things for himself: yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

He that laboreth laboreth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Whoever stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself; and reveal not a secret to another:

Whoever boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Whoever causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.

King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honorable.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, as he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

What shall I say? he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.

One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

He heweth down cedars for himself, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and warm himself; indeed he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yes, he maketh a god, and worshipeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down to it.

He burneth part of it in the fire; with part of it he eateth flesh; he roasteth meat, and is satisfied: yes, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

Yes, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Shall a man make gods to himself, and they are no gods?

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you?

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is laid waste, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he is not.

Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall raise a shout against thee.

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she hath been wonderfully abased: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is concerning the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, who separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

Son of man, Write for thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Then the king, when he heard these words, was much displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he labored till the setting of the sun to deliver him.

Yes, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

And after sixty and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and to the end of the war desolations are determined.

And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that which is determined shall be done.

Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.