Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are in prosperity, And they who provoke God are secure, Who carry their God in their hand.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7For ask now the beasts, and they will teach thee; Or the fowls of the air, and they will tell thee;
Cross References
Job 9:24The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covereth the face of the judges thereof; If it be not He, who is it?
Job 21:7Why is it that the wicked live, Grow old, yea, become mighty in substance?
Job 24:23God giveth them security, so that they are confident; His eyes are upon their ways.
Psalms 37:1“A psalm of David.” Be not thou angry on account of the wicked, Nor be envious of those who do iniquity.
Psalms 73:3For I was envious of the proud, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birds, So are their houses full of fraud. Therefore are they grown great 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 →