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“Undoubtedly, you are the voice of the people,
    and when you die, wisdom will die with you.
But I also have intelligence;
    I am not inferior to you in this regard.
    Who is ignorant of all these things?
[a]“I have become a laughingstock to my friends,
    I whom God would answer when I called upon him;
    although I am innocent and just, he afflicted me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:4 The righteous who are afflicted even have to suffer the scorn of the impious: see Ps 22:7-22; Mt 27:39-43.