For he has said,“ A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”

他说：‘人以神为乐，总是无益。’

他说：‘人以上帝为乐，总是无益。’

他说：‘人以神为乐，总是无益。’

因为他说，‘人取悦上帝毫无益处。’

因为他说过：‘人讨神的喜悦，对他并无益处。’

他說：人以神為樂，總是無益。

他說：『人以上帝為樂，總是無益。』

他說：『人以神為樂，總是無益。』

因為他說，『人取悅上帝毫無益處。』

因為他說過：‘人討神的喜悅，對他並無益處。’

因為他說：「人樂於同上帝來往總是無益。」

彼雲、人樂上帝、無所裨益、

彼曰、崇事上帝、亦何所裨。

約百云、天主悅納人、與人無益、或作人順從天主亦何所益

For he says,‘ There is no profit in trying to please God.’

He asks,‘ What good is it to try to please God?’

For he has said,‘ It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’

He has even said,‘ Why waste time trying to please God?’

For he has said,‘ It is of no use to a man When he becomes friends with God.’

For he has said,‘ It profits a man nothing That he should delight in God.’

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

For he has said,“ A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

For he says,‘ It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

For he has said,‘ It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

For you ask,“ What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?”

It is all the same. Therefore I say,“ He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”When catastrophe brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

You have said,“ It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Armies?

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!

Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires.

Yet they say to God,“ Leave us alone! We don’t want to know your ways.Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him, and what will we gain by pleading with him?”But their prosperity is not of their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

Indeed, the evil person is spared from the day of disaster, rescued from the day of wrath.

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at all times?

They were the ones who said to God,“ Leave us alone!” and“ What can the Almighty do to us?”