4 ‘I would like to reply to youand to your friends with you.
5 Look up at the heavens and see;gaze at the clouds so high above you.
6 If you sin, how does that affect him?If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him,or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,and your righteousness only other people.
9 ‘People cry out under a load of oppression;they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
10 But no one says, “Where is God my Maker,who gives songs in the night,