1 Samuel 12:21New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “You must not turn aside, for [then you would go] after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— and turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— and turn ye not aside; for [then would ye go] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And turn ye not aside: for then [would ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— and turn ye not aside; for [it would be] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they [are] vain,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Neither turne yee backe: for that shoulde be after vaine things which cannot profite you, nor deliuer you, for they are but vanitie)
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And turne ye not aside, for then [should ye goe] after vaine things, which cannot profit, nor deliuer, for they are vaine.)
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And do not turn aside after vain things which cannot deliver you; that you may not die, for they are vain things.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And turn not aside after the [gods] that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver [you], because they are nothing.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain. |
And turn ye not aside:
5493 {5493} Primeסוּרcuwr{soor}
A primitive root; to turn off (literally or figuratively).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
for
x3588 (3588) Complementכִּיkiy{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
[ then should ye go] after
310 {0310} Primeאַחַר'achar{akh-ar'}
From H0309; properly the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjugation, after (in various senses).
vain
8414 {8414} Primeתֹּהוּtohuw{to'-hoo}
From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain.
[ things], which
x834 (0834) Complementאֲשֶׁר'asher{ash-er'}
A primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as adverb and conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
cannot
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
profit
3276 {3276} Primeיָעַלya`al{yaw-al'}
A primitive root; properly to ascend; figuratively to be valuable (objective useful, subjective benefited).
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
nor
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
deliver;
5337 {5337} Primeנָצַלnatsal{naw-tsal'}
A primitive root; to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense.
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
for
x3588 (3588) Complementכִּיkiy{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
they
x1992 (1992) Complementהֵםhem{haym}
Masculine plural from H1931; they (only used when emphatic).
[ are] vain.
8414 {8414} Primeתֹּהוּtohuw{to'-hoo}
From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain. |
1 Samuel 12:21
Turn aside — After idols; as they had often done before; and, notwithstanding this warning, did afterwards. Vain things — So idols are called, Deuteronomy 32:21; Jeremiah 2:5, and so they are, being mere nothings, having no power in them; no influence upon us, nor use or benefit to us. |
- vain things:
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Jeremiah 2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah 10:15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 14:22 Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].
Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.
Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Habakkuk 2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one.
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- cannot profit:
Psalms 115:4-8 Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ... They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
Isaiah 41:23-24 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold [it] together. ... Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
Isaiah 44:9-10 They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. ... Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye [that are] escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god [that] cannot save.
Isaiah 46:7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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