Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
5Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.
Cross References
Job 9:24The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?
Job 21:7Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
Job 24:23Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.
Psalms 37:1A Psalme of David. Fret not thy selfe because of the wicked men, neither be enuious for the euill doers.
Psalms 73:3For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.
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 →