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But I too have a brain, as much as you,
In no way am I inferior to you.
Besides, who doesn’t know things like these?

“Anyone who calls on God,
and he answers him,
becomes a laughingstock to his friends —
they make fun of an innocent, blameless man.
Those at ease have contempt for misfortune,
for the blow that strikes somebody already staggering.

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But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(A)

“I have become a laughingstock(B) to my friends,(C)
    though I called on God and he answered(D)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(E)
Those who are at ease have contempt(F) for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.(G)

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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

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