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I’m a joke to friends
        who called to God and he answered;
    the innocent and blameless one is a joke,
    a torch[a] of contempt to one who is idle,
    a fixed point for slipping feet.

Proverbial wisdom

Raiders’ tents are prosperous
    and God’s provokers secure,
    who carry God in their hands.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:5 Heb uncertain
  2. Job 12:6 Heb uncertain

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