5 Look at the heavens and see;scan the clouds high over you.
6 If you’ve sinned, how have you affected God?Your offenses have multiplied;what have you done to him?
7 If you are righteous,what do you give to him?Or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your evil affects others like you,and your righteousness affects fellow human beings.
9 People cry out because of heavy oppression;shout under the power of the mighty.
10 But no one says, "Where is God my maker;who gives songs in the night;
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth,makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?"