For you ask, “What does it profit you,[fn]
and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin? ”
If you sin, how does it affect God?
If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him?
Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,
and your righteousness, a son of man.[fn]
People cry out because of severe oppression;
they shout for help because of the power of the mighty.
“who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky? ”
Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,
and the Almighty does not take note of it —
But now, because God’s anger does not punish
and he does not pay attention to transgression,[fn]
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