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12 1-2 Yes, you are the voice of the people.
    When you die, wisdom will die with you.
But I have as much sense as you have;
    I am in no way inferior to you;
    everyone knows all that you have said.
Even my friends laugh at me now;
    they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless;
    but there was a time when God answered my prayers.

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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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