For you ask, ‘What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin? ’
For he has said, ‘A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.’
You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Armies?
For what portion would I have from God above, or what inheritance from the Almighty on high?
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him, and what will we gain by pleading with him? ’
If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and have drunk deeply of my affliction.
If I have sinned, what have I done to you, Watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I have become a burden to you?
I will answer you and your friends with you.