If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? (And), What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?