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“A person who has an easy life has no appreciation for misfortune.
    He thinks it is the fate of those who slip up.
But robbers’ tents are prosperous,
    and there is security for those who provoke El,
        for those whose god is their power.[a]

“Instead, ask the animals, and they will teach you.
    Ask the birds, and they will tell you.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:6 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

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