5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.


In Context

2 Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!

3 I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?

4 I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man.

5 He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

6 The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.

7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;

Job 12:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:5He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:5Men at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:5The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:5In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:5In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5A torch — despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.