Berean Standard Bible
Job 12:5
5The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
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 also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? 4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock. The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping. 6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands. 7But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
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לַפִּ֣יד בּ֭וּז לְעַשְׁתּ֣וּת שַׁאֲנָ֑ן נָ֝כ֗וֹן לְמ֣וֹעֲדֵי רָֽגֶל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 12:5
- Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
- Psalms 17:5My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
- Psalms 94:18If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
- Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
- Matthew 25:8The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
- Job 6:5Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
- Job 16:4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
- Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
- Amos 6:1Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
- Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
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
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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
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