3. For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me?What’s the use of living a righteous life?’
4. “I will answer youand all your friends, too.
5. Look up into the sky,and see the clouds high above you.
6. If you sin, how does that affect God?Even if you sin again and again,what effect will it have on him?
7. If you are good, is this some great gift to him?What could you possibly give him?
8. No, your sins affect only people like yourself,and your good deeds also affect only humans.
9. “People cry out when they are oppressed.They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
10. Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator,the one who gives songs in the night?