1. THEN JOB answered,
2. No doubt you are the [only wise] people [in the world], and wisdom will die with you!
3. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these [of God's wisdom and might]?
4. I am become one who is a laughingstock to his friend; I, one whom God answered when he called upon Him–a just, upright (blameless) man–laughed to scorn!
5. In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune–but it is ready for those whose feet slip.
6. The dwellings of robbers prosper; those who provoke God are [apparently] secure; God supplies them abundantly [who have no god but their own hands and power].