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Job 12:2-4
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2 “Undoubtedly, you are the voice of the people,
    and when you die, wisdom will die with you.
3 But I also have intelligence;
    I am not inferior to you in this regard.
    Who is ignorant of all these things?
4 [a]“I have become a laughingstock to my friends,
    I whom God would answer when I called upon him;
    although I am innocent and just, he afflicted me.

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  1. Job 12:4 The righteous who are afflicted even have to suffer the scorn of the impious: see Ps 22:7-22; Mt 27:39-43.
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Job 12:2-4
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2 “Doubtless you are the only people who matter,
    and wisdom will die with you!(A)
3 But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(B)

4 “I have become a laughingstock(C) to my friends,(D)
    though I called on God and he answered(E)—
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(F)

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