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Yes, indeed. You are the people,
and wisdom will die with you!
But I understand things as well as you.[a]
I do not fall short of you.
Who doesn’t know all these things?

But I am a laughingstock to my neighbor—
I, who call on God, and he answers me—
I, a righteous and complete man, am a laughingstock!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:3 Literally my heart is like yours

“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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