Job’s Reply to Zophar55

12:1 Then Job answered:

12:2 “Without a doubt you are the people,1

and wisdom will die with you.2

12:3 I also have understanding3 as well as you;

I am not inferior to you.4

Who does not know such things as these?5

12:4 I am6 a laughingstock7 to my friends,8

I, who called on God and whom he answered9—

a righteous and blameless10 man

is a laughingstock!

12:5 For calamity,11 there is derision

(according to the ideas of the fortunate12)—

a fate13 for those whose feet slip!

12:6 But14 the tents of robbers are peaceful,

and those who provoke God are confident15—

who carry their god in their hands.16