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But I have a brain, just like you.
    I’m as clever as you are.
    In fact, everyone knows as much as you do.

“My friends laugh at me all the time,
    even though I called out to God and he answered.
My friends laugh at me,
    even though I’m honest and right.
People who have an easy life look down on those who have problems.
    They think trouble comes only to those whose feet are slipping.

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But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(A)

“I have become a laughingstock(B) to my friends,(C)
    though I called on God and he answered(D)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(E)
Those who are at ease have contempt(F) for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.(G)

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