Isaiah 57:12

Isa 57:12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

Ver. 12. I will declare thy righteousness, ] i.e., Thine unrighteousness, by an irony; a or, Thy righteousness secundum dici, non secundum esse, thine hypocrisy.

For they shall not profit thee. ] Nay, they shall undo thee.

a Antiphrasis ironica.