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“You certainly are wise people,
    and when you die, wisdom will die.
Like you, I have a mind.
    I am not inferior to you.
        But who doesn’t know these things?
I am a laughingstock to my neighbors.
    I am one who calls on Eloah and expects an answer.
    A man of integrity, a man who is righteous, has become a laughingstock.

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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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