2  a“Can a man be profitable to God?

Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,

or is it gain to him if you bmake your ways blameless?

4  Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you

and centers into judgment with you?

5  Is not your evil abundant?

There is no end to your iniquities.

6  For you have dexacted pledges of your brothers for nothing

eand stripped the naked of their clothing.

7  You have given no water to the weary to drink,

and you have fwithheld bread from the hungry.

8  gThe man with power possessed the land,

and hthe favored man lived in it.

9  You have isent widows away empty,

and jthe arms of kthe fatherless were crushed.

10  Therefore lsnares are all around you,

and sudden terror overwhelms you,

11  or mdarkness, so that you cannot see,

and a nflood of owater covers you.