4 I have words for a reply to youand your friends as well.
5 Look up to the skies and see;behold the heavens high above you.
6 If you sin, what do you do to God?Even if your offenses are many, how do you affect him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give him,or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself,and your justice, only a fellow human being.
9 In great oppression people cry out;they call for help because of the power of the great,
10 No one says, “Where is God, my Maker,who gives songs in the night,