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“Truly indeed you[a] are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.[b]
I also have insight[c] like you;[d]
I am not more inferior than you.[e]
And who does not know things like these?[f]
I am a laughingstock to my friends:[g]
He calls on God, and he answers him.’
A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:2 Plural
  2. Job 12:2 Plural
  3. Job 12:3 Literally “Also for me heart”
  4. Job 12:3 Plural
  5. Job 12:3 Plural
  6. Job 12:3 Literally “and who there is not like these”
  7. Job 12:4 Hebrew “to his friends”

“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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