Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
New American Standard Bible
As prepared for those whose feet slip.
King James Version
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Holman Bible
and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
International Standard Version
The carefree are thinking, "I have contempt for misfortune,' Those who are about to stumble deserve it.
A Conservative Version
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose foot slips.
American Standard Version
In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
Amplified
“He who is at ease has contempt for misfortune,
But misfortune is ready [and anxiously waiting] for those whose feet slip.
Bible in Basic English
In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
Darby Translation
He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Julia Smith Translation
To misfortune is contempt to the thoughts of him at ease, being prepared for the waverings of the foot
King James 2000
He that is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Those at ease have contempt} for [the] thought of {disaster}, [but it is] ready for those unstable of foot.
Modern King James verseion
a flaming brand despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; it is ready for those with slipping feet.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Godliness is a light despised in the hearts of the rich, and is set for them to stumble upon.
NET Bible
For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) -- a fate for those whose feet slip!
New Heart English Bible
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
The Emphasized Bible
For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease, - ready, for such as are of faltering foot!
Webster
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
World English Bible
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
Themes
Feet » Illustrative » (sliding,) of yielding to temptation
Prosperity » The prosperous people despise the unfortunate people
Interlinear
Kuwn
Regel
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech
4 A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one. 5 A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet. 6 At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35
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.
Job 6:5
Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?
Job 16:4
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.
Job 18:5
Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
Psalm 17:5
To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.
Psalm 94:18
If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
Psalm 123:3-4
Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
Jeremiah 13:16
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.
Amos 6:1-6
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.
Matthew 25:8
and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;
Luke 12:19
and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.
Luke 16:19-20
And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,