Job 12:3-5

Common English Bible

³ I am also intelligent;
    I’m not inferior to you.
    Who isn’t like these people?^[a]
4 I’m a joke to friends
        who called to God and he answered;
    the innocent and blameless one is a joke,
⁵     a torch^[b] of contempt to one who is idle,
    a fixed point for slipping feet.