Job 12:5
People who are comfortable have contempt for those who are in trouble, ready to push over those who are already slipping.
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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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35I make sure justice is done, I will repay. The time is coming when they will fall, their day of disaster is approaching, their doom will soon arrive.”
Job 16:4I could talk like you do if you were in my place, stringing words together to criticize you, ridiculing you with a toss of my head.
Psalms 17:5I have not strayed from your path; my feet have not slipped from it.
Psalms 123:3Please have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy. We've had enough of people's contempt.
Proverbs 20:20Anyone who curses their father or mother will have their light put out and end in utter darkness.
Amos 6:1How disastrous it will be for you who have an easy life in Zion, and you who feel secure living on Mount Samaria—you who are the most famous men in all of Israel to whom people come for help!
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 →