[a]He that is ready to fall, is as a lamp despised in the opinion of the rich.

The tabernacles of robbers do prosper, and they are in safety, that provoke God, [b]whom God hath enriched with his hand.

Ask now the beasts, [c]and they shall teach thee, and the fowls of the heaven, and they shall tell thee:

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:5 As the rich esteem not a light, or torch that goeth out, so is he despised that falleth from prosperity to adversity.
  2. Job 12:6 Hebrew, to whom God hath brought in with his hand.
  3. Job 12:7 He declareth to them that did dispute against him, that their wisdom is common to all, and such as the very brute beasts do daily teach.

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