He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Job 12:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. Common English Bible Raiders’ tents are prosperous and God’s provokers secure, who carry God in their hands. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands. |
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
that thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
from men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.