Job 12:5 meaning and explanation

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Job 12:5, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering his three friends, who have insisted that suffering proves wrongdoing. Here he quotes the smug attitude he sees around him: people who are comfortable look down on anyone who stumbles, treating calamity as something that only happens to those who deserve it.

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