⁹ For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

³ That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? `And', What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

²² It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

³¹ Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

⁴ Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

¹⁴ And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

¹⁶ Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

³⁰ That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

¹⁷ Who said unto God, Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us?

¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times?