1. Then Job answered:
2. “Without a doubt you are the people,and wisdom will die with you.
3. I also 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 on God and whom he answered –a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
5. For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!
6. But the tents of robbers are peaceful,and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.
7. “But now, ask the animals and they will teach you,or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.
8. Or speak to the earth and it will teach you,or let the fish of the sea declare to you.
9. Which of all these does not knowthat the hand of the Lord has done this,
10. in whose hand is the life of every creatureand the breath of all the human race.