2 “You people really know everything, don’t you?And when you die, wisdom will die with you!
3 Well, I know a few things myself—and you’re no better than I am.Who doesn’t know these things you’ve been saying?
4 Yet my friends laugh at me,for I call on God and expect an answer.I am a just and blameless man,yet they laugh at me.
5 People who are at ease mock those in trouble.They give a push to people who are stumbling.
6 But robbers are left in peace,and those who provoke God live in safety—though God keeps them in his power.
7 “Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8 Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you.Let the fish in the sea speak to you.