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Like you, I have a mind.
    I am not inferior to you.
        But who doesn’t know these things?
I am a laughingstock to my neighbors.
    I am one who calls on Eloah and expects an answer.
    A man of integrity, a man who is righteous, has become a laughingstock.

“A person who has an easy life has no appreciation for misfortune.
    He thinks it is the fate of those who slip up.

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But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(A)

“I have become a laughingstock(B) to my friends,(C)
    though I called on God and he answered(D)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(E)
Those who are at ease have contempt(F) for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.(G)

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