No doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you!
But I also have a mind like you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?[a](A)

I am a laughingstock to my[b] friends,
by calling on God, who answers me.[c]
The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:3 Lit With whom are not such things as these?
  2. 12:4 Lit his
  3. 12:4 Lit him

“No doubt you are the people,
And wisdom will die with you!
But I have [a]understanding as well as you;
I am not (A)inferior to you.
Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

“I(B) am one mocked by his friends,
Who (C)called on God, and He answered him,
The just and blameless who is ridiculed.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:3 Lit. a heart