Job 12:5

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Summary

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.

Ready

A lamp

Of him

Bible References

Ready

Mine are vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.

If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.

A lamp

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

Of him

Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,

Woe to those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,