“I have become a laughingstock(A) to my friends,(B)
    though I called on God and he answered(C)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(D)
Those who are at ease have contempt(E) for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.(F)

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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.

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“I(A) am one mocked by his friends,
Who (B)called on God, and He answered him,
The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
A [a]lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease;
It is made ready for (C)those whose feet slip.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:5 Or disaster