Job 12:4-6

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⁴I am a laughingstock to my^[a] friends,
by calling on God, who answers me.^[b]
The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.^(A)
⁵The one who is at ease^(B) holds calamity in contempt
and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
⁶The tents of robbers are safe,^(C)
and those who trouble God are secure;
God holds them in his hands.^[c]^(D)

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Footnotes

12:4 Lit his
12:4 Lit him
12:6 Or secure; to those who bring their god in their hands

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