Job 12:5
For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease,—ready, for such as are of faltering foot!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 32:35Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on.
Job 16:4I also, like you, could speak,—If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.
Psalms 17:5Thou hast held fast my goings on to thy ways, My footsteps have not been shaken:
Psalms 123:3Show us favour, O Yahweh, show us favour, for, exceedingly, are we sated with contempt:
Proverbs 20:20Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
Amos 6:1Alas for the careless in Zion, and for them who put confidence in the mountain of Samaria,—the distinguished among the first group of nations, to whom came in the house of Israel.
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 →