Bible verse
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
Job 12:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 12.
2 “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
3 But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
5 The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
KJV
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
ASV
The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
ERV
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
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