Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand.
New American Standard Bible
And those who provoke God
King James Version
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Holman Bible
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.
International Standard Version
The tents of robbers are at rest, and those who provoke God are secure, that is, those who carry their god in their pocket.
A Conservative Version
The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
American Standard Version
The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly .
Amplified
“The tents of the destroyers prosper;
And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,
Whom God brings into their power.
Bible in Basic English
There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.
Darby Translation
The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.
Julia Smith Translation
The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand
King James 2000
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.
Modern King James verseion
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, in whatever God brings to their hand.
NET Bible
But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident -- who carry their god in their hands.
New Heart English Bible
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
The Emphasized Bible
At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand.
Webster
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
World English Bible
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
Youngs Literal Translation
At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
Themes
Apparent injustice » Sometimes attributed to God
Injustice » Sometimes attributed to God
Partiality » Sometimes attributed to God
Philosophy » Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and his providence
Prosperity » Of the wicked, general references to
Interlinear
Ragaz
'el
אלהּ אלוהּ
'elowahh
Usage: 57
Yad
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech
5 Godliness is a light despised in the hearts of the rich, and is set for them to stumble upon. 6 "The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand. 7 Ask the cattle, and they shall inform thee; the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.
Names
Cross References
Job 9:24
As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?
Job 21:7-15
"Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches?
Job 22:18
He filled their houses with good things. But the council of the ungodly is far from me.
Psalm 17:14
From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.
Psalm 37:1
{A Psalm of David} Fret not thyself because of the ungodly; neither be thou envious against the evil doers.
Psalm 37:35
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.
Psalm 73:11-12
"Tush," say they, "How should God perceive it? Is there knowledge in the most high?"
Jeremiah 5:27
And like as a net is full of birds, so are their houses full of that which they have gotten with falsity and deceit. Hereof cometh their great substance and riches,