1. Then Job spoke again:
2. “You people really know everything, don’t you?And when you die, wisdom will die with you!
3. Well, I know a few things myself—and you’re no better than I am.Who doesn’t know these things you’ve been saying?
4. Yet my friends laugh at me,for I call on God and expect an answer.I am a just and blameless man,yet they laugh at me.
5. People who are at ease mock those in trouble.They give a push to people who are stumbling.
6. But robbers are left in peace,and those who provoke God live in safety—though God keeps them in his power.
7. “Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.