OLD TESTAMENT

Job 12:5

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In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

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Verse 5. The lamp. Such is the just man, who under affliction is ( Bible.) exposed to the ridicule of men who live at their ease.—For. Hebrew “to fall.” Calmet.—Septuagint “It was appointed for me to fall under others at the time fixed.”

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