Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Bible References
Ready
Deuteronomy 32:35
Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on.
Psalm 17:5
Thou hast held fast my goings on to thy ways, My footsteps have not been shaken:
Psalm 94:18
If I say, My foot, hath slipped, Thy lovingkindness, O Yahweh, supporteth me.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give ye to Yahweh your God - glory, Before he cause darkness, and Before your feet stumble upon the twilight mountains; Lest, when ye wait for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, And change it for thick darkness.
A lamp
Job 18:5
Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, - Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous, rejoiceth, but, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
Matthew 25:8
And, the foolish, unto the prudent, said - Give us of your oil, because, our torches, are going out.
Of him
Job 6:5
Doth the wild ass bray over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 16:4
I also, like you, could speak, - If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.
Psalm 123:3
Show us favour, O Yahweh, show us favour, for, exceedingly, are we sated with contempt:
Amos 6:1
Alas for the careless in Zion, and for them who put confidence in the mountain of Samaria, - the distinguished among the first group of nations, to whom came in the house of Israel.
Luke 12:19
and will say to my soul - Soul! thou hast many good things lying by for many years: be taking thy rest, eat, drink,be making merry!
Luke 16:19
Now, a certain man, was rich, and he used to clothe himself with purple and fine linen, making merry day by day, brilliantly.