8. Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself,and your righteousness only other people.
9. “People cry out because of the excess of oppression;they cry out for helpbecause of the power of the mighty.
10. But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator,who gives songs in the night,
11. who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth,and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12. Then they cry out – but he does not answer – because of the arrogance of the wicked.