3 But I have understanding as well as you;I am not inferior to you.Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
4 “I am one mocked by his friends,Who called on God, and He answered him,The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
5 A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease;It is made ready for those whose feet slip.
6 The tents of robbers prosper,And those who provoke God are secure—In what God provides by His hand.
7 “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you;And the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you;And the fish of the sea will explain to you.
9 Who among all these does not knowThat the hand of the Lord has done this,