4 “I will answer youand your friends who are with you.
5 Look up at the skyand see the clouds so high above you.
6 If you sin, it does nothing to God;even if your sins are many, they do nothing to him.
7 If you are good, you give nothing to God;he receives nothing from your hand.
8 Your evil ways only hurt others like yourself,and the good you do only helps other human beings.
9 “People cry out when they are in trouble;they beg for relief from powerful people.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker,who gives us songs in the night,