Job 12:5
He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Darby Translation
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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Job 16:4I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
Psalms 17:5When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip not.
Psalms 123:3Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
Amos 6:1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the renowned of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come.
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 →