3 "But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
4 "I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
5 "He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.
6 "The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.
7 "But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
8 "Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.
9 "Who among all these does not know That the hand of the Lord has done this,