Job 12:5

Job 12:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
• New International Version (NIV)Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
• English Standard Version (ESV)In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
• New King James Version (NKJV)A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease; It is made ready for those whose feet slip.

Context of Job 12:5

3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 4I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock. In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth. 6The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. 7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:

Job 12:5 word by word

לַפִּ֣יד בּ֭וּז לְעַשְׁתּ֣וּת שַׁאֲנָ֑ן נָ֝כ֗וֹן לְמ֣וֹעֲדֵי רָֽגֶל׃Read the interlinear

• easeשַׁאֲנָןsha'ănân · secureH7600
• contemptבּוּזbûz · contemptH937
• footרֶ֫גֶלregel · footH7272

Cross-references for Job 12:5

• Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
• Psalms 17:5My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.
• Psalms 94:18When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
• Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Job 18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
• Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
• Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
• Matthew 25:8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.
• Job 6:5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
• Job 16:4I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.
• Psalms 123:3Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
• Amos 6:1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
• Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.
• Luke 16:19Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:

Commentaries on Job 12:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5He that is ready to slip with his feet - The man whose feet waver or totter; that is, the man in adversity; see Proverbs 25:19. A man in prosperity is represented as standing firm; one in adversity as wavering, or falling; see Psalm 73:2. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped. There is much difficulty in this passage, and it has by no means been removed by the labor of critics. The reader may consult Rosenmuller, Good…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Rather, "a torch" (lamp) is an object of contempt in the thoughts of him who rests securely (is at ease), though it was prepared for the falterings of the feet [Umbreit] (Pr 25:19). "Thoughts" and "feet" are in contrast; also rests "securely," and "falterings." The wanderer, arrived at his night-quarters, contemptuously throws aside the torch which had guided his uncertain steps through the darkness. As the torch is to the wanderer, so Job to his…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 12:5

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Persecution
• Prosperity

In the dictionaries

• Deep
• Discover
• Lamp; Lampstand
• Satan

Commentaries on Job 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings