Job 12:6
Robbers live in peace, and those who make God angry live in safety, trusting their own strength as their ‘god.’
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7But if you ask the animals they will teach you, the birds in the sky will tell you;
Cross References
Job 9:24The earth has been handed over to the wicked; he blinds the eyes of the judges —if it's not him who does this, then who is it?
Job 21:7Why do the wicked continue to live, to grow old and increasingly powerful?
Job 24:23He supports them and gives them security, but he is always watching what they're doing.
Psalms 37:1Don't be upset over wicked people, or be jealous of those who do wrong.
Psalms 73:3because I was jealous of self-important people—I saw how well the wicked were doing.
Jeremiah 5:27Their homes are full of their ill-gotten gains, like cages full of birds. That's why they've become powerful and rich.
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 →