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# unprofitable

«unprofitable» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Not bringing any good or benefit** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Not bringing any good or benefit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unprofitable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Job, Eliphaz says that Job's talk is useless words that do no good. Interpretation: The book of Job shows friends who give speeches but no real comfort. Tradition sees it as a lesson that empty arguing does not help a suffering person.

### examples

- Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? (Writings JOB.15.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unprofitable/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.366/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unprofitable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unprofitable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.