² “No doubt you are the people,
And wisdom will die with you!
³ But I have understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

⁴ “I am one mocked by his friends,
Who called on God, and He answered him,
The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
⁵ A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease;
It is made ready for those whose feet slip.
⁶ The tents of robbers prosper,
And those who provoke God are secure—
In what God provides by His hand.