²² It is all one; therefore I say,
    ‘He ^(A)destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
²³ When ^(B)disaster brings sudden death,
    he mocks at the calamity^[a] of the innocent.

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow
    and ^(A)cleanse my hands with lye,
³¹ yet you will plunge me into a pit,
    and my own clothes will ^(B)abhor me.

^7 (A)Why do the wicked live,
    reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

^15 (A)What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    And what ^(B)profit do we get if we pray to him?’

³ that you ask, ^(A)‘What advantage have I?
    How am I better off than if I had sinned?’