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Job 12:5
5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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
3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these? 4I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man]. He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. 6The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth. 7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;
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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, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
- Psalms 17:5When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip not.
- Psalms 94:18When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will 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 flame 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 the blackest darkness.
- Matthew 25:8And the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, for our torches are going out.
- Job 6:5Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?
- Job 16:4I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
- Psalms 123:3Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
- Amos 6:1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the renowned of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come.
- Luke 12:19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
- Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour 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
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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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