Job 12:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The tabernacles of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The dwellings of robbers prosper; those who provoke God are [apparently] secure; God supplies them abundantly [who have no god but their own hands and power].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Common English Bible

⁶ Raiders’ tents are prosperous and God’s provokers secure, who carry God in their hands.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands.

Job 12:6 Cross References

Job 12:5

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

Job 12:7

“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

Job 15:13

so that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Job 22:18

Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?

Psalm 17:14

from mortals—by your hand, O Lord— from mortals whose portion in life is in this world. May their bellies be filled with what you have stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their little ones.

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of the wicked; do not be envious of wrongdoers,

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked oppressing and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Jeremiah 5:27

Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich;

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Habakkuk 1:11

Then they sweep by like the wind; they transgress and become guilty; their own might is their god!