For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.