New English Translation

Job 12:1-5 New English Translation (NET)

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!