A moment in scripture
Job 12:4
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I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
- Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
- Job 12:5
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
- Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.