Job 12:5
The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 32:35Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
Job 16:4I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.
Psalms 17:5Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.
Psalms 123:3Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.
Proverbs 20:20He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.
Amos 6:1Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with state 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 →