¹⁵ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’^(A)

³ Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,^[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’^(A)

¹⁸ When you see a thief, you join^(A) with him;
    you throw in your lot with adulterers.^(B)