“No doubt you are the people,
And wisdom will die with you!
But I have [a]understanding as well as you;
I am not (A)inferior to you.
Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

“I(B) am one mocked by his friends,
Who (C)called on God, and He answered him,
The just and blameless who is ridiculed.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:3 Lit. a heart

“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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