For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,
What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
And what `is' the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?
For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?
Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
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?