1. Then Job replied:
2. ‘Doubtless you are the only people who matter,and wisdom will die with you!
3. But I have a mind as well as you;I am not inferior to you.Who does not know all these things?
4. ‘I have become a laughing-stock to my friends,though I called on God and he answered –a mere laughing-stock, though righteous and blameless!
5. Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortuneas the fate of those whose feet are slipping.