God’s Word Translation
Job 12:5
5“A person who has an easy life has no appreciation for misfortune. He thinks it is the fate of those who slip up.
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
3Like you, I have a mind. I am not inferior to you. But who doesn’t know these things? 4I am a laughingstock to my neighbors. I am one who calls on God and expects an answer. A man of integrity, a man who is righteous, has become a laughingstock. “A person who has an easy life has no appreciation for misfortune. He thinks it is the fate of those who slip up. 6⌞But⌟ robbers’ tents are prosperous, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whose god is their power. 7“Instead, ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds, and they will tell you.
Read all of Job 12Job 12:5 word by word
לַפִּ֣יד בּ֭וּז לְעַשְׁתּ֣וּת שַׁאֲנָ֑ן נָ֝כ֗וֹן לְמ֣וֹעֲדֵי רָֽגֶל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 12:5
- Deuteronomy 32:35I will take revenge and be satisfied. In due time their foot will slip, because their day of disaster is near. Their doom is coming quickly.
- Psalms 17:5my steps have remained firmly in your paths. My feet have not slipped.
- Psalms 94:18When I said, “My feet are slipping,” your mercy, O Lord, continued to hold me up.
- Jeremiah 13:16Honor the Lord your God before it gets dark, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight. You will look for light, but the Lord will turn it into the shadow of death and change it into deep darkness.
- Job 18:5“Indeed, the light of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire stops glowing.
- Proverbs 13:9The light of righteous people beams brightly, but the lamp of wicked people will be snuffed out.
- Proverbs 20:20The lamp of the person who curses his father and mother will be snuffed out in total darkness.
- Matthew 25:8“The foolish ones said to the wise ones, ‘Give us some of your oil. Our lamps are going out.’
- Job 6:5“Does a wild donkey bray when it’s ⌞eating⌟ grass, or does an ox make a sound over its hay?
- Job 16:4I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
- Psalms 123:3Have pity on us, O Lord. Have pity on us because we have suffered more than our share of contempt.
- Amos 6:1How horrible it will be for those who are at ease in Zion, for those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, and for the heads of the leading nations, to whom the nation of Israel comes.
- Luke 12:19Then I’ll say to myself, “You’ve stored up a lot of good things for years to come. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.” ’
- Luke 16:19“There was a rich man who wore expensive clothes. Every day was like a party to him.
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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