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‘You people think that you know everything.
    You think that there will be no wisdom after you die.
But I understand things as well as you.
    You are no better than I am.
Everyone knows the things that you have been saying.
I am a person who prayed to God and he answered me.
    But my friends now laugh at me.
I have always lived completely in the right way.
    But still my friends laugh at me.

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“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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