1. Then Job responded,
2. "Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
3. "But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
4. "I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
5. "He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.
6. "The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.