⁹ For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

³ What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

²² It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

²³ If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

¹⁴ You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

³⁰ If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

³¹ Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

⁴ So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.

¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

¹⁶ Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

³⁰ How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

¹⁷ Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?

¹⁰ Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?