Job 12:5

The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.

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In The King James 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 Context

4He 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.

6The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and I will repay them in due time, so that their foot may slip and fall. The day of perdition is near, and the time rushes to appear.’

Job 16:4I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.

Psalms 17:5The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.

Psalms 123:3perhaps they would have swallowed us alive. When their fury was enraged against us,

Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.

Amos 6:1Woe to you who have been wealthy in Zion, and to you who have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: aristocrats, heads of the people, who advance with a retinue into the house of Israel.

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 →

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