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Job 12:5

American Standard Version

In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

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Job 12:5 in other translations

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune.
It is ready for them whose foot slips.

Job 12:5 · World English Bible

Job 12:5 in context

  1. 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
  2. 4I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
  3. 5In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
  4. 6The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
  5. 7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee: