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

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?’

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

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

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.’

that you ask,‘ What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

It is all one; therefore I say,‘ He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

You have said,‘ It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

They say to God,‘ Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

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

They said to God,‘ Depart from us,’ and‘ What can the Almighty do to us?’