[If] I shall be [declared] guilty, why then should I labor in vain?

"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;

Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world} {have you become altogether vain}?

"If I have made gold my trust, or I have called fine gold my security,

It deals cruelly with its young ones, as [if] [they were] not its [own], as [if] without fear [that] its labor [were] in vain,