Job 12:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 12:5 Cross References

Job 12:4

I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, A man that called upon God, and he answered him: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

Job 12:6

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

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake mine head at you.

Job 18:5

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Job 6:5

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Psalm 17:5

My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.

Psalm 94:18

When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains; and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Matthew 25:8

And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance is mine, and recompence, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.