2 “No doubt you are the people,and wisdom will die with you.
3 But I 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 to God and he answered me,a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
5 In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune;it is ready for those whose feet slip.
6 The tents of robbers are at peace,and those who provoke God are secure,who bring their god in their hand.
7 “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
8 or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;and the fish of the sea will declare to you.