Job 12:5
To calamity belongeth contempt in the mind of one at ease; It is ready for them that slip with the feet.
Noyes 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
Job 16:4I also might speak like you, If ye were now in my place; I might string together words against you, And shake my head at you.
Psalms 17:5Support my steps in thy paths, That my feet may not slip!
Psalms 123:3Have mercy upon us, O LORD! have mercy upon us, For we are overwhelmed with contempt!
Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in midnight darkness.
Amos 6:1Woe to them that dwell at ease in Zion; That feel secure upon the mountain of Samaria; The honorable men of the chief of the nations, To whom the house of Israel resort!
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 →