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Surely you are the people,
    and wisdom will die with you.
I am also intelligent;
    I’m not inferior to you.
    Who isn’t like these people?[a]
I’m a joke to friends
        who called to God and he answered;
    the innocent and blameless one is a joke,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:3 Heb lacks people.

“Doubtless you are the only people who matter,
    and wisdom will die with you!(A)
But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(B)

“I have become a laughingstock(C) to my friends,(D)
    though I called on God and he answered(E)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(F)

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