4 “Job, I want to answer you and your friends here with you.
5 Look up at the sky. Look at the clouds, which are so much higher than you.
6 If you sin, it does not hurt God. Even if your sins are too many to count, that does nothing to God.
7 And if you are good, that does not help God. He gets nothing from you.
8 Job, the good and bad things you do affect only other people like yourself.
9 “If people are being hurt, they cry out and beg for protection from those who hurt them.
10 But they forget to say, ‘Where is God, the one who made me? He is the one who gives us songs to sing in the night.