⁹ For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

³ For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

²² It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

²³ If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

¹⁴ Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

³⁰ If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

³¹ Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.

⁴ And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

¹⁵ What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

¹⁶ Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

¹⁷ Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

¹⁰ On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?