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Job 12:5
5Some people never have any troubles. They think that people who suffer are fools. If people are in trouble, they knock them down!
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 understand things as well as you. You are no better than I am. Everyone knows the things that you have been saying. 4I am a person who prayed to God and he answered me. But my friends now laugh at me. I have always lived completely in the right way. But still my friends laugh at me. Some people never have any troubles. They think that people who suffer are fools. If people are in trouble, they knock them down! 6But robbers seem to live in peace. They cause God to be angry but they think that they are safe. They trust their own strength as their god. 7Ask the animals and they will teach you. The birds in the sky would tell you the truth.
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לַפִּ֣יד בּ֭וּז לְעַשְׁתּ֣וּת שַׁאֲנָ֑ן נָ֝כ֗וֹן לְמ֣וֹעֲדֵי רָֽגֶל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 12:5
- Deuteronomy 32:35When the right time comes, I will punish them as they deserve. They will suddenly fall and great trouble will quickly destroy them.’
- Psalms 17:5No, I carefully follow your ways. I do not turn away from them.
- Psalms 94:18When I think, ‘I am falling down,’ your faithful love keeps me safe, Lord.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give honour to the Lord your God, before it is too late. Do it before he makes everywhere become dark. Then you will fall down, like someone who walks on the mountains at night. You may hope for light to come, but God will make it completely dark.
- Job 18:5The light of a wicked person's life will stop shining. His fire will no longer burn brightly.
- Proverbs 13:9Righteous people have joy that shines like a bright light. But wicked people have a light that will quickly go out.
- Proverbs 20:20If you insult your parents, your life will quickly finish, like a lamp that suddenly goes out and leaves you in complete darkness.
- Matthew 25:8The five silly young women said to the other five young women, “Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are not giving much light.”
- Job 6:5A wild donkey does not complain when it has grass to eat. An ox is quiet when it has its food.
- Job 16:4If you were suffering like I am, I could say the same things to you. I could speak for a long time about the wrong things that you have done. I could shake my head and laugh at you.
- Psalms 123:3Please be kind to us, Lord. Please forgive us. People have insulted us more and more!
- Amos 6:1Trouble is coming to you people who live in Zion and on Samaria's hill. You think that you are safe. You think that you are important people who live in the best nation on earth. Israelite people respect you as their leaders.
- Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, ‘You have plenty of things stored safely. These will be enough for you for many years. Now you can live an easy life. Eat and drink as much as you want. Enjoy yourself.’ ”
- Luke 16:19Jesus then said, ‘At one time, there was a rich man who wore very expensive clothes. This rich man ate big meals 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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