2. Can a man be of any use to God?Can even a wise man be of use to Him?
3. Does it delight the Almighty if you are righteous?Does He profit if you perfect your behavior?
4. Does He correct you and take you to courtbecause of your piety?
5. Isn’t your wickedness abundantand aren’t your iniquities endless?
6. For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
7. You gave no water to the thirstyand withheld food from the famished,
8. while the land belonged to a powerful manand an influential man lived on it.
9. You sent widows away empty-handed,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
10. Therefore snares surround you,and sudden dread terrifies you,
11. or darkness, so you cannot see,and a flood of water covers you.