The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
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.
Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.
Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.
The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.
And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.
And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
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.
O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.
O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.
See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?
Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money.
This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?
You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?
But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;
For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.
Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:
For to me life is Christ and death is profit.
But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
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