Job 12:5
A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure || Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
Literal Standard Version
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 and retribution [are] Mine, || At the due time—their foot slides; For near is a day of their calamity, || And things prepared for them have hastened.
Job 16:4I also, like you, might speak, || If your soul were in my soul’s stead. I might join against you with words, || And nod at you with my head.
Psalms 17:5To uphold my goings in Your paths, || My steps have not slipped.
Psalms 123:3Favor us, O YHWH, favor us, || For we have been greatly filled with contempt,
Proverbs 20:20Whoever is vilifying his father and his mother, his lamp is extinguished in blackness of darkness.
Amos 6:1Woe [to] those secure in Zion, || And those confident on the mountain of Samaria, || The marked of the chief of the nations, || And the house of Israel has come to them.
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 →