But I have [a]understanding as well as you;
I am not (A)inferior to you.
Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

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

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:3 Lit. a heart
  2. Job 12:5 Or disaster

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