But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?

‘I have become a laughing-stock to my friends,
    though I called on God and he answered –
    a mere laughing-stock, though righteous and blameless!
Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

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