1 Then Job answered them:
2 “I’m sure you think you are the only wise people left. You think that when you die, wisdom will be gone with you.
3 But my mind is as good as yours. You aren’t any smarter than I am. You haven’t said anything that people don’t already know.
4 “My friends laugh at me now. They say, ‘He prayed to God and got his answer.’ I am a good, innocent man, but still they laugh at me.
5 Those who have no troubles make fun of those who do. They hit a man when he is down.
6 But robbers’ tents are not bothered. Those who make God angry live in peace, even though God has them in his power.
7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you. Or ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.