Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
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In Context
5The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
7But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
Cross References
Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
Job 21:7Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
Job 24:23He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
Psalms 37:1Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
Psalms 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:27Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have 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 →