6. If you sin, what do you do to God?Even if your offenses are many, how do you affect him?
7. If you are righteous, what do you give him,or what does he receive from your hand?
8. Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself,and your justice, only a fellow human being.
9. In great oppression people cry out;they call for help because of the power of the great,
10. No one says, “Where is God, my Maker,who gives songs in the night,
11. Teaches us more than the beasts of the earth,and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?”
12. Though thus they cry out, he does not answerbecause of the pride of the wicked.