³ For ^(A)you say,
‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

^14 (A)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?

¹³ Surely I have ^[a]cleansed my heart in ^(A)vain,
And washed my hands in innocence.