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


In Context

2 |No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

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

6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

7 |But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

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 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.