If you sin, how does that affect him?
    If your sins are many, what does that do to him?(A)

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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

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Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,(A)
    and your righteousness only other people.(B)

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Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

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

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O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

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I say of the holy people(A) who are in the land,(B)
    “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”

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But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

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12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
    for the world(A) is mine, and all that is in it.(B)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
    or drink the blood of goats?

14 “Sacrifice thank offerings(C) to God,
    fulfill your vows(D) to the Most High,(E)

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12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

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14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him,
    and who taught him the right way?
Who was it that taught him knowledge,(A)
    or showed him the path of understanding?(B)

15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
    they are regarded as dust on the scales;(C)
    he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.(D)
16 Lebanon(E) is not sufficient for altar fires,
    nor its animals(F) enough for burnt offerings.
17 Before him all the nations(G) are as nothing;(H)
    they are regarded by him as worthless
    and less than nothing.(I)

18 With whom, then, will you compare God?(J)
    To what image(K) will you liken him?

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14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

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