² “You ·really [truly] think you are the ·only wise people [^Lpeople]
    and that when you die, wisdom will die with you [^CJob attacks the friends’ confidence in their wisdom]!
³ But my ·mind [^Lheart; ^Cthe heart was considered the location of thought] is as good as yours;
    ·you are not better than I am [^LI am not inferior to you].
    ·Everyone knows all these things [^LWho is not like these?; ^Cprobably a reference to the three friends and their intelligence].
⁴ ·My friends all laugh at me [^LI am a joke to my friends],
    I who called on God and he answered me [^Ca reference to his earlier days, which the friends now think are a joke];
    they laugh at me even though I am right and innocent!