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Job 12:5 KJV
Job · chapter 12 · verse 5
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.Job 12:5 · King James Version
Job 12:5 in context
3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- despisedbûwzdisrespectH937 →
- thoughtʻashtûwthcogitationH6248 →
- readykûwnproperly, to be erectH3559 →
- slipmâʻadto waverH4571 →
- feetregela footH7272 →
- lamplappîyda flambeau, lamp or flameH3940 →
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The reproofs Job here gives to his friends, whether they were just or no, were very sharp, and may serve for a rebuke to all that are proud and scornful, and an exposure of their folly. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5