1. Then Job answered them:
2. “I’m sure you think you are the only wise people left. You think that when you die, wisdom will be gone with you.
3. But my mind is as good as yours. You aren’t any smarter than I am. You haven’t said anything that people don’t already know.
4. “My friends laugh at me now. They say, ‘He prayed to God and got his answer.’ I am a good, innocent man, but still they laugh at me.