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Job 12:5-7
Contemporary English Version

5 It's easy to condemn
those who are suffering,
    when you have no troubles.
6 Robbers and other godless people
live safely at home and say,
    “God is in our hands!”[a]

If You Want To Learn

7 If you want to learn,
    then go and ask
the wild animals and the birds,

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Footnotes

  1. 12.6 God is in our hands: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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Job 12:5-7
New International Version

5 Those who are at ease have contempt(A) for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.(B)
6 The tents of marauders are undisturbed,(C)
    and those who provoke God are secure(D)—
    those God has in his hand.[a]

7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you,(E)
    or the birds in the sky,(F) and they will tell you;(G)

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  1. Job 12:6 Or those whose god is in their own hand
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