Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 3808 [e] וְלֹ֖א wə-lō and not Conj-w | Adv-NegPrt 5493 [e] תָּס֑וּרוּ tā-sū-rū; do turn aside V-Qal-Imperf-2mp 3588 [e] כִּ֣י ׀ kî for [then you would go] Conj 310 [e] אַחֲרֵ֣י ’a-ḥă-rê after Prep 8414 [e] הַתֹּ֗הוּ hat-tō-hū, empty things Art | N-ms 834 [e] אֲשֶׁ֧ר ’ă-šer which Pro-r 3808 [e] לֹֽא־ lō- cannot Adv-NegPrt 3276 [e] יוֹעִ֛ילוּ yō-w-‘î-lū profit V-Hifil-Imperf-3mp 3808 [e] וְלֹ֥א wə-lō or Conj-w | Adv-NegPrt 5337 [e] יַצִּ֖ילוּ yaṣ-ṣî-lū deliver V-Hifil-Imperf-3mp 3588 [e] כִּי־ kî- for Conj 8414 [e] תֹ֥הוּ ṯō-hū nothing N-ms 1992 [e] הֵֽמָּה׃ hêm-māh. they [are] Pro-3mp

New American Standard Bible
"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 Bible
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don't turn away to follow worthless things that can't profit or deliver you; they are worthless.

vain things

Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have …

Jeremiah 2:5,13 Thus said the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, …

Jeremiah 10:8,15 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine …

Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? …

Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of …

Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Habakkuk 2:18 What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; …

1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered …

cannot profit

Psalm 115:4-8 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands…

Isaiah 41:23,24 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that …

Isaiah 44:9,10 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable …

Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped …

Isaiah 46:7 They bear him on the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his …

Jeremiah 10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation …

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