Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?
Job 21:7Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?
Job 24:23[God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.
Psalms 37:1Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, nor be thou envious against those who work unrighteousness.
Psalms 73:3For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich.
Matthew Henry on Job 12:2-6
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 And Job answered and said, 2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. 5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. The reproofs Job here gives to his friends,… Read the whole commentary →