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Job 12:5

Discouragement and depressionPoverty and the vulnerable

3 But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.

7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

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BSB
The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
KJV
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
WEB
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
ASV
In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
DARBY
He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
BLB
[There is] contempt for disaster in the thought of the secure, prepared for those slipping of foot.
ÅB
Ulykken fortjener bare forakt etter de trygges mening; forakt venter dem hvis fot vakler.
OTB
De som er i ro, forakter ulykke,
som er forberedt for dem hvis føtter glir.
B1930
Ulykken fortjener bare forakt efter de trygges mening; forakt venter dem hvis fot vakler.

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