Job 12:5
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
World English Bible Classic
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
6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides, for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
Job 16:4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
Psalms 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Amos 6:1Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
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 →