2. “Truly indeed you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3. I also have insight like you; I am not more inferior than you. And who does not know things like these?
4. I am a laughingstock to my friends: ‘He calls on God, and he answers him.’ A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock.
5. Those at ease have contempt for the thought of disaster, but it is ready for those unstable of foot.
6. The tents of the destroyers are at peace, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whom God brings into his hand.
7. “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you;
8. or ask the earth, and it will teach you, and the fishes of the sea will declare to you.
9. Who among all of these does not know that Yahweh’s hand has done this?
10. In whose hand is the life of all living things and the breath of every human being?
11. Does not the ear test words and the palate taste food for itself?
12. Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding is in length of days.
13. “With him are wisdom and powerful deeds, and to him belong counsel and understanding.