Job answers the friends

1Then Job answered and said:

2No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

3I too have a mind like you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?

4I am a laughingstock to my friend, one who calls to God and is answered—a righteous and blameless man, a laughingstock.

5A torch is despised in the thought of one who is at ease; it is ready for those whose foot slips.

6The tents of destroyers are at ease, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hand.