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1 Samuel 12:21 (100.00%)

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

And turn ye not aside H5493 (8799): for [then should ye go] after H310 vain H8414 [things], which cannot profit H3276 (8686) nor deliver H5337 (8686); for they [are] vain H8414.

and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

Job 15:3 (100.00%)

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Should he reason H3198 (8687) with unprofitable H5532 (8799) talk H1697? or with speeches H4405 wherewith he can do no good H3276 (8686)?

To reason with a word not useful? And speeches-no profit in them?

Job 21:15 (100.00%)

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

What [is] the Almighty H7706, that we should serve H5647 (8799) him? and what profit H3276 (8686) should we have, if we pray H6293 (8799) unto him?

What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?’

Job 35:3 (100.00%)

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

For thou saidst H559 (8799), What advantage H5532 (8799) will it be unto thee? [and], What profit H3276 (8686) shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin H2403?

For thou sayest, ‘What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?’

Job 30:13 (100.00%)

They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.

They mar H5420 (8804) my path H5410, they set forward H3276 (8686) my calamity H1942 (8675) H1962, they have no helper H5826 (8802).

They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, ‘He hath no helper.’

Proverbs 10:2 (100.00%)

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Treasures H214 of wickedness H7562 profit H3276 (8686) nothing: but righteousness H6666 delivereth H5337 (8686) from death H4194.

Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 11:4 (100.00%)

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Riches H1952 profit H3276 (8686) not in the day H3117 of wrath H5678: but righteousness H6666 delivereth H5337 (8686) from death H4194.

Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

Isaiah 30:5 (100.00%)

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

They were all ashamed H3001 (8689) of a people H5971 [that] could not profit H3276 (8686) them, nor be an help H5828 nor profit H3276 (8687), but a shame H1322, and also a reproach H2781.

All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

Isaiah 30:6 (100.00%)

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

The burden H4853 of the beasts H929 of the south H5045: into the land H776 of trouble H6869 and anguish H6695, from whence [come] the young H3833 and old lion H3918, the viper H660 and fiery H8314 flying H5774 (8789) serpent H8314, they will carry H5375 (8799) their riches H2428 upon the shoulders H3802 of young asses H5895, and their treasures H214 upon the bunches H1707 of camels H1581, to a people H5971 [that] shall not profit H3276 (8686) [them].

The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence are viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.

Isaiah 44:9 (100.00%)

Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

They that make H3335 (8802) a graven image H6459 [are] all of them vanity H8414; and their delectable things H2530 (8803) shall not profit H3276 (8686); and they [are] their own witnesses H5707; they see H7200 (8799) not, nor know H3045 (8799); that they may be ashamed H954 (8799).

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 44:10 (100.00%)

Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

Who hath formed H3335 (8804) a god H410, or molten H5258 (8804) a graven image H6459 [that] is profitable H3276 (8687) for nothing H1115?

Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out-not profitable?

Isaiah 47:12 (100.00%)

“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.

Stand H5975 (8798) now with thine enchantments H2267, and with the multitude H7230 of thy sorceries H3785, wherein H834 thou hast laboured H3021 (8804) from thy youth H5271; if so be thou shalt be able H3201 (8799) to profit H3276 (8687), if so be thou mayest prevail H6206 (8799).

Stand, I pray thee, in thy charms, And in the multitude of thy sorceries, In which thou hast laboured from thy youth, It may be thou art able to profit, It may be thou dost terrify!

Isaiah 48:17 (100.00%)

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Thus saith H559 (8804) the LORD H3068, thy Redeemer H1350 (8802), the Holy One H6918 of Israel H3478; I [am] the LORD H3068 thy God H430 which teacheth H3925 (8764) thee to profit H3276 (8687), which leadeth H1869 (8688) thee by the way H1870 [that] thou shouldest go H3212 (8799).

Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, ‘I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

Isaiah 57:12 (100.00%)

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

I will declare H5046 (8686) thy righteousness H6666, and thy works H4639; for they shall not profit H3276 (8686) thee.

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

Jeremiah 2:8 (100.00%)

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

The priests H3548 said H559 (8804) not, Where [is] the LORD H3068? and they that handle H8610 (8802) the law H8451 knew H3045 (8804) me not: the pastors H7462 (8802) also transgressed H6586 (8804) against me, and the prophets H5030 prophesied H5012 (8738) by Baal H1168, and walked H1980 (8804) after H310 [things that] do not profit H3276 (8686).

The priests have not said, ‘Where is Jehovah?’ And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

Jeremiah 2:11 (100.00%)

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

Hath a nation H1471 changed H3235 (8689) [their] gods H430, which [are] yet no gods H430? but my people H5971 have changed H4171 (8689) their glory H3519 for [that which] doth not profit H3276 (8686).

Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

Jeremiah 7:8 (100.00%)

Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

Behold, ye trust H982 (8802) in lying H8267 words H1697, that cannot profit H3276 (8687).

Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.

Jeremiah 12:13 (100.00%)

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

They have sown H2232 (8804) wheat H2406, but shall reap H7114 (8804) thorns H6975: they have put themselves to pain H2470 (8738), [but] shall not profit H3276 (8686): and they shall be ashamed H954 (8804) of your revenues H8393 because of the fierce H2740 anger H639 of the LORD H3068.

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick-they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 16:19 (100.00%)

Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

O LORD H3068, my strength H5797, and my fortress H4581, and my refuge H4498 in the day H3117 of affliction H6869, the Gentiles H1471 shall come H935 (8799) unto thee from the ends H657 of the earth H776, and shall say H559 (8799), Surely our fathers H1 have inherited H5157 (8804) lies H8267, vanity H1892, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit H3276 (8688).

O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

Jeremiah 23:32 (100.00%)

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy H5012 (8737) false H8267 dreams H2472, saith H5002 (8803) the LORD H3068, and do tell H5608 (8762) them, and cause my people H5971 to err H8582 (8686) by their lies H8267, and by their lightness H6350; yet I sent H7971 (8804) them not, nor commanded H6680 (8765) them: therefore they shall not profit H3276 (8686) this people H5971 at all H3276 (8687), saith H5002 (8803) the LORD H3068.

Lo, I am against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I-I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Habakkuk 2:18 (100.00%)

“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

What profiteth H3276 (8689) the graven image H6459 that the maker H3335 (8802) thereof hath graven H6458 (8804) it; the molten image H4541, and a teacher H3384 (8688) of lies H8267, that the maker H3335 (8802) of his work H3336 trusteth H982 (8804) therein, to make H6213 (8800) dumb H483 idols H457?

What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation-to make dumb idols?

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.