Job 12:6
The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Cross References
Job 9:24The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked [man]; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it?
Job 21:7Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
Job 24:23[God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.
Psalms 37:1{[A Psalm] of David.} Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of them that work unrighteousness;
Psalms 73:3For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:27As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
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 →