Catholic Public Domain Version
"The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time. "
— Job 12:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.”
“In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth. ”
“In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.”
“For calamity, there is derision(according to the ideas of the fortunate)– a fate for those whose feet slip!”
“The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.”
“In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.”
“He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.”
Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?
And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.
The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.
In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.
Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.