Thematic Bible: Unprofitable


Thematic Bible




They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:



They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:


Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.


I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.


Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.




And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.

For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.




Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.



Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain