1. Then Job answered and said,
2. No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
3. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4. I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
5. In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
6. The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
7. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee: