8. Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
9. “People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
10. But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11. who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’
12. He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13. Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.