2 Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?
3 And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
4 He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
5 The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.
6 The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.
7 In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.
8 Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.