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?
11. Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animalsand wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12. And when they cry out, God does not answerbecause of their pride.