1 Then Job replied:
2 ‘Doubtless you are the only people who matter,and wisdom will die with you!
3 But I have a mind as well as you;I am not inferior to you.Who does not know all these things?
4 ‘I have become a laughing-stock to my friends,though I called on God and he answered –a mere laughing-stock, though righteous and blameless!
5 Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortuneas the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
6 The tents of marauders are undisturbed,and those who provoke God are secure –those whom God has in his hand.
7 ‘But ask the animals, and they will teach you,or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;