Thematic Bible: Unprofitable


Thematic Bible




All have turned away. They have become completely worthless. No one shows kindness, not even one person!



All have turned away. They have become completely worthless. No one shows kindness, not even one person!


Go and cry out to the gods that you have chosen for yourselves. Let them deliver you in your time of trouble."

And they lift it on their shoulders, carry it, set it up in its place, and there it stands. It cannot move from that spot. One may even call to it, but it cannot answer nor save him from his distress.


"I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.


They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Why spend your money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in rich food.

"He'll sing to mankind with these words: "I've sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.




Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.

For the wicked man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.




Then I examined all of my accomplishments that I had brought about by my own efforts, including the work that I had labored so hard to complete and it was all pointless, like chasing after the wind, and there was nothing to be gained on earth.



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