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“You really think you are the only wise people.
    You think when you die wisdom will die with you.
But my mind is as good as yours.
    You are not better than I am.
    Everyone knows all these things.
My friends all laugh at me
    when I call on God and expect him to answer me.
    They laugh at me even though I am right and innocent!

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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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