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

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

²¹ Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.

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

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.

¹⁵ If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,

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

² And what `is' the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

¹³ Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

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?