2 “No doubt, but you are the people,and wisdom shall die with you.
3 But I have understanding as well as you;I am not inferior to you.Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbour,I, who called on God, and he answered.The just, the blameless man is a joke.
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune.It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6 The tents of robbers prosper.Those who provoke God are secure,who carry their God in their hands.
7 “But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you;the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you.The fish of the sea shall declare to you.