Job 12:5
A torch — despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
Young's Literal Translation
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 32:35Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time — doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
Job 16:4I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
Psalms 17:5To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.
Psalms 123:3Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,
Proverbs 20:20Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
Amos 6:1Woe [to] those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have 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 →