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Job 12:4-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

4 I have become the sport of my neighbors:[a]
    “The one whom God answers when he calls upon him,
    The just, the perfect man,” is a laughingstock;(A)
5 The undisturbed esteem my downfall a disgrace
    such as awaits unsteady feet;
6 Yet the tents of robbers are prosperous,
    and those who provoke God are secure,
    whom God has in his power.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:4–5 The Hebrew is somewhat obscure, but the general sense is that the wicked mock the pious when the latter appear to be abandoned by God; cf. Ps 22:7–9; Mt 27:39–43.
  2. 12:6 Whom God has in his power: the Hebrew is obscure. The line may be a scribal error; some of the phrases occur in vv. 9, 10.
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