1. Then Job answered and said:
2. “No doubt you are the people,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?
4. I am a laughingstock to my friends;I, who called to God and he answered me,a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
5. In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune;it is ready for those whose feet slip.
6. The tents of robbers are at peace,and those who provoke God are secure,who bring their god in their hand.
7. “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;