1. Then Job, answering, said:
2. Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?
3. And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
4. He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
5. The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.
6. The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.
7. In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.
8. Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.
9. Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things?
10. In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.
11. Does not the ear perceive words, and the palate, when eating, perceive flavor?
12. In old age is wisdom, and in length of days is prudence.