1. Then Job answered:
2. “Without a doubt you are the people,and wisdom will die with you.
3. I also have understanding as well as you;I am not inferior to you.Who does not know such things as these?
4. I am a laughingstock to my friends,I, who called on God and whom he answered –a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
5. For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!
6. But the tents of robbers are peaceful,and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.
7. “But now, ask the animals and they will teach you,or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.