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Job 12:3-5
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3 Like you, I also have understanding.[a]
    I’m not inferior to you;
        who doesn’t know things[b] like this?”

Job Has Become a Laughingstock

4 “I’m a laughingstock to my friends,
    someone[c] who called on God.
But then he answered this upright and blameless man,
    and I have become[d] a laughingstock.
5 The carefree are thinking, ‘I have contempt for misfortune,’
    Those who are about to stumble deserve it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:3 Lit. my heart is like yours
  2. Job 12:3 The Heb. lacks things
  3. Job 12:4 The Heb. lacks someone
  4. Job 12:4 The Heb. lacks have become
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Job 12:3-5
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3 But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(A)

4 “I have become a laughingstock(B) to my friends,(C)
    though I called on God and he answered(D)—
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(E)
5 Those who are at ease have contempt(F) for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.(G)

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