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

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

²¹ I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

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

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.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.

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

² For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

¹³ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,

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?