World English Bible
Job 12:5
“In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.”
Verse in context — Job 12
3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
4
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
5
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
7
But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
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