2
"I'm sure you speak for all the experts, and when you die there'll be no one left to tell us how to live.
3
But don't forget that I also have a brain - I don't intend to play second fiddle to you. It doesn't take an expert to know these things.
4
"I'm ridiculed by my friends: 'So that's the man who had conversations with God!' Ridiculed without mercy: 'Look at the man who never did wrong!'
5
It's easy for the well-to-do to point their fingers in blame, for the well-fixed to pour scorn on the strugglers.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.