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Job 12:5

Discouragement and depressionPoverty and the vulnerable

3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

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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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