Job 12:5
Those like you who have no troubles make fun of me; they cause those like me who are already suffering to have more troubles.
Translation for Translators
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 32:35I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done to my people, at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
Job 16:4If it were you three and not I who were suffering, I could say the things that you are saying; I could make great speeches to criticize/condemn you, and I could shake my head at you to ridicule you.
Psalms 17:5I have always done what you told me to do [IDM], I have ◄never failed to do/always done► [LIT] those things.
Psalms 123:3Yahweh, be very merciful [DOU] to us because our enemies have acted very contemptuously toward us.
Proverbs 20:20If someone curses his father or his mother, his life will be ended, just like a lamp is extinguished.
Amos 6:1Terrible things will happen to you people in Jerusalem who are not worried about anything, and also to you leaders who live on Samaria Hill who think that you are safe. You think that [IRO] you are the most important people in the world, people to whom Israeli people [MTY] go to get help.
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 →