Thematic Bible: Unprofitable


Thematic Bible




All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”



All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”


Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”

“They lift it upon the shoulder and carry it;
They set it in its place and it stands there.
It does not move from its place.
Though one may cry to it, it cannot answer;
It cannot deliver him from his distress.


“I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not profit you.


“They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
They have strained themselves to no profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

“Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And delight yourself in abundance.

“He will sing to men and say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.




You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

For there will be no future for the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.




Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.



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