⁹ For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'

³ That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

²² "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

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

¹⁴ You 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 Yahweh of Hosts?

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

³¹ Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

⁴ Also delight yourself in Yahweh, And he will give you the desires of your heart.

¹⁴ They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

¹⁶ Behold, 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 to God, 'Depart from us;' And, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

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