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He who lives in comfort laughs at one who has trouble and whose feet are slipping. The tents of those who destroy have much. Those who make God angry are safe and have their god in their own hands.

“But ask the wild animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.

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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