Job 12:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 But I have intelligence as well as you;(A)
I do not fall short of you;
for who does not know such things as these?
4 I have become the sport of my neighbors:[a]
“The one whom God answers when he calls upon him,
The just, the perfect man,” is a laughingstock;(B)
5 The undisturbed esteem my downfall a disgrace
such as awaits unsteady feet;
Footnotes
- 12:4–5 The Hebrew is somewhat obscure, but the general sense is that the wicked mock the pious when the latter appear to be abandoned by God; cf. Ps 22:7–9; Mt 27:39–43.
Job 12:3-5
New International Version
3 But I have a mind as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know all these things?(A)
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