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Job 12:2-4
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2 “Truly, you are the people
    and wisdom will die with you!
3 Like you, I also have understanding.[a]
    I’m not inferior to you;
        who doesn’t know things[b] like this?”

Job Has Become a Laughingstock

4 “I’m a laughingstock to my friends,
    someone[c] who called on God.
But then he answered this upright and blameless man,
    and I have become[d] a laughingstock.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:3 Lit. my heart is like yours
  2. Job 12:3 The Heb. lacks things
  3. Job 12:4 The Heb. lacks someone
  4. Job 12:4 The Heb. lacks have become
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Job 12:2-4
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2 “Doubtless you are the only people who matter,
    and wisdom will die with you!(A)
3 But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(B)

4 “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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