The verse declares that the prophet will expose the idolaters' works and their righteousness (sarcastically implying their supposed "righteousness"), which will not profit them. The prophetic threat to expose rather than conceal inverts the idolaters' strategy of hidden practice and public respectability. The claim that their self-proclaimed righteousness will not profit them asserts that YHWH's judgment supersedes their own self-assessment. This verse establishes prophetic authority to dismantle false claims to righteousness and expose moral incoherence between profession and practice.

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