Job 12:5
He that is ready to slip with {his} feet {is as} a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
King James Version
✦ Tap any word with a dotted underline to see its original language study
Connections · 17
Parallel · 17
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. {gone out: or, going out}
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. {lamp: or, candle}
Hold up my goings in thy paths, {that} my footsteps slip not. {slip...: Heb. be not moved}
To me {belongeth} vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in {due} time: for the day of their calamity {is} at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
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.
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? {when he...: Heb. at grass?}
Woe to them {that are} at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, {which are} named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! {are at...: or, are secure} {chief: or, firstfruits}
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. {lamp: or, candle}
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, {and} be merry.
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
I also could speak as ye {do}: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, {and} with the contempt of the proud.
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, {even} as Christ Jesus.