³ What pleasure^(A) would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?^(B)
    What would he gain if your ways were blameless?^(C)

⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give to him,^(A)
    or what does he receive^(B) from your hand?^(C)

² I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;^(A)
    apart from you I have no good thing.”^(B)

¹² All have turned away,
    they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
    not even one.”^[a](A)