[a]He that is ready to fall, is as a lamp despised in the opinion of the rich.

The tabernacles of robbers do prosper, and they are in safety, that provoke God, [b]whom God hath enriched with his hand.

Ask now the beasts, [c]and they shall teach thee, and the fowls of the heaven, and they shall tell thee:

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:5 As the rich esteem not a light, or torch that goeth out, so is he despised that falleth from prosperity to adversity.
  2. Job 12:6 Hebrew, to whom God hath brought in with his hand.
  3. Job 12:7 He declareth to them that did dispute against him, that their wisdom is common to all, and such as the very brute beasts do daily teach.

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

“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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Footnotes

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