Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
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5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:
Cross References
Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Job 21:7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Job 24:23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he rests; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
Psalms 37:1Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psalms 73:3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and becoming 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 →