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Job 12:5
5Those who are at ease have contempt for 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)People who are at ease mock those in trouble. They give a push to people who are stumbling.
Context of Job 12:5
3But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things? 4“I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless! Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping. 6The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure— those God has in his hand. 7“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
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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 32:35It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.”
- Psalms 17:5My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled.
- Psalms 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom.
- Job 18:5“The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
- Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
- Proverbs 20:20If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch 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 when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
- Job 16:4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
- Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.
- Amos 6:1Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
- Luke 12:19And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’
- Luke 16:19“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury 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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