Ayub 34:9

34:9 For he says, ‘It does not profit a man

when he makes his delight with God.’¹

Yeremia 2:8

2:8 Your priests² did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’³

Those responsible for teaching my law⁴ did not really know me.⁵

Your rulers rebelled against me.

Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal.⁶

They all worshiped idols that could not help them.⁷

16:26 For what does it benefit a person⁸ if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

6:21 So what benefit⁹ did you then reap¹⁰ from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.