These false comforters claimed that our efforts to serve Jehovah loyally are of no benefit to him at all, that our value to God is no more than that of a moth, a maggot, or a worm.
لَقَدِ ٱدَّعَى كُلٌّ مِنْ أَلِيفَازَ وَبِلْدَدَ أَنَّ خِدْمَتَنَا ٱلْوَلِيَّةَ بِلَا جَدْوَى فِي نَظَرِ يَهْوَهَ .‏