‘I have become a laughing-stock to my friends,
    though I called on God and he answered –
    a mere laughing-stock, though righteous and blameless!
Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
The tents of marauders are undisturbed,
    and those who provoke God are secure –
    those whom God has in his hand.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:6 Or those whose god is in their own hand