4 But as for me, I said: “It is for nothing that I have toiled.+ For unreality and vanity I have used up my own power.+ Truly my judgment is with Jehovah,+ and my wages with my God.”*+

5 But as for you, you keep seeking great things for yourself.+ Do not keep on seeking.”’+

“‘For here I am bringing in a calamity upon all flesh,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and I will give you your soul as a spoil in all the places to which you may go.’”+

9 But as regards you, in case you actually warn someone wicked from his way [for him] to turn back from it but he actually does not turn back from his way, he himself will die in his own error,+ whereas you yourself will certainly deliver your own soul.*+

6 But after they kept on opposing and speaking abusively,+ he shook out his garments+ and said to them: “Let YOUR blood+ be upon YOUR own heads. I am clean.+ From now on I will go to people of the nations.”+

26 Hence I call YOU to witness this very day that I am clean from the blood+ of all men,