² Job (sarcastically to his friends): Surely, surely, my discerning friends, you are the ones!
        And when you pass away, the sum total of all wisdom will perish from the earth.

³     I have a mind as good as yours.
        Don’t think I am so far beneath you!
    After all, who doesn’t know all about these things?
        Who isn’t acquainted with the pedestrian platitudes you’ve trotted out?
⁴     As for me—the one who called upon God and whom God answered—
        now, I am pitiful, laughable, a just and upright joke.