Job 12:6
The tents of spoilers are at peace, || And those provoking God have confidence, || Into whose hand God has brought.
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In Context
5A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure || Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
Cross References
Job 9:24Earth has been given || Into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of her judges, || If not—where, who [is] he?
Job 21:7Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth.
Job 24:23He gives to him confidence, and he is supported, || And His eyes [are] on their ways.
Psalms 37:1BY DAVID. [ALEPH-BET] Do not fret because of evildoers, || Do not be envious against doers of iniquity,
Psalms 73:3I see the peace of the wicked, || That there are no bands at their death,
Jeremiah 5:27As a cage full of birds, || So their houses are full of deceit, || Therefore they have been great, and are 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 →