Job 12:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Those at ease have contempt for misfortune, but it is ready for those whose feet are unstable.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ He that is ready to slip with his feet Is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune–but it is ready for those whose feet slip.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

Common English Bible

⁵ a torch of contempt to one who is idle, a fixed point for slipping feet.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.

Job 12:5 Cross References

Matthew 25:8

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

Psalm 17:5

My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight; while you look for light, he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Proverbs 20:20

If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.

Psalm 94:18

When I thought, “My foot is slipping,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.

Job 18:5

“Surely the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of their fire does not shine.

Job 16:4

I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.

Job 6:5

Does the wild ass bray over its grass or the ox low over its fodder?

Deuteronomy 32:35

for the day of vengeance and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip? Because the day of their calamity is at hand; their doom comes swiftly.

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.