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

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

²¹ I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

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.

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.

¹⁵ That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

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?

² For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

¹³ As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

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?