Job 12:5
The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
Majority Standard Bible
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 is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
Job 16:4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Psalms 17:5My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Amos 6:1Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
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 →