Thematic Bible: Sin unprofitable, general references to


Thematic Bible



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

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.




Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.