'Profit' in the Bible

And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it that we kill our brother and secrete his blood?

and turn ye not aside; for it would be after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people, and they keep not the king's laws; and it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?

For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to want.

What profit hath man of all his labour wherewith he laboureth under the sun?

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes?

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?

They were all ashamed of a people that did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Stand now with thine enchantments and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to turn them to profit, if so be thou mayest cause terror.

Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee for thy profit, who leadeth thee in the way that thou shouldest go.

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they shall not profit thee.

The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handled the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Hath a nation changed its gods? and they are no gods; but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.

They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and do not profit. Be ye therefore ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of distress, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited falsehood and vanity; and in these things there is no profit.

Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah, and that tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies and by their boasting; and I have not sent them, nor commanded them; and they profit not this people at all, saith Jehovah.

Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?