Can a man be of use to the Mighty God, as he who is wise may be profitable to himself?

If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

Oh my soul, you have said to Jehovah, You are my Lord; I have no goodness apart from You.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices, or your burnt offerings, which are continually before Me.

for every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, My anger and My fury shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.

I hate, I despise your feast days; and I will not savor your solemn assemblies.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your lutes.

But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

for in Him we live and move and exist, as also some of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good, giving us rain from the heavens and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And they fell on their faces, and said, O Mighty God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will You be angry with all the congregation?

Let Jehovah the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all the flesh of mankind?

as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

The Spirit of the Mighty God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

If He should set His heart on it, if He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath,

These all wait upon You, that You may give them their food in due season.

You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Thus says Jehovah the Mighty God, He who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; Who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk on it.

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before Me, and the souls I have made.

The burden of the Word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.