“avail” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word avail appears 6 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 6 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 25:32 He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?
- Genesis 37:20 Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:
- Proverbs 17:16 What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
- Ecclesiasticus 34:30 He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail?
- Habacuc 2:18 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.