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I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor,
    I, who called on God, and he answered.
    The just, the blameless man is a joke.
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune.
    It is ready for them whose foot slips.
The tents of robbers prosper.
    Those who provoke God are secure,
    who carry their god in their hands.

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I am a laughingstock to my friends:[a]
He calls on God, and he answers him.’
A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock.
Those at ease have contempt[b] for the thought of disaster,[c]
but it is ready for those unstable of foot.
The tents of the destroyers are at peace,
and there is security for those who provoke God,
for those whom God brings into his hand.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:4 Hebrew “to his friends”
  2. Job 12:5 Literally “Contempt is according to the thought of the complacent”
  3. Job 12:5 Literally “a torch”
  4. Job 12:6 Or “power”