Every person works for his own self-interests, but his desires remain unsatisfied.

It is better to focus on what you can see than to meander after your self-interest; this also is pointless and a chasing after wind.

For when a native Israeli or a resident alien abandons me to set up idols in his heart behind my back, and then places the stumbling block of his iniquity right in front of his own face, then approaches a prophet to inquire of me on behalf of his own self-interest, I, the LORD will answer him myself.

Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests.

but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,