Job 12:5

WEB

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

KJV

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

BSB

⁵The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

FBV

⁵People who are comfortable have contempt for those who are in trouble, ready to push over those who are already slipping.

Extra References

Proverbs 13:9

⁹The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

Psalms 17:5

⁵My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Matthew 25:8

⁸^[+] The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Luke 12:19

¹⁹I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

Job 16:4

⁴I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

Psalms 123:3-4

³Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. ⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

Deuteronomy 32:35

³⁵Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides, for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

¹⁶Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

Luke 16:19-20

¹⁹“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. ²⁰A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

Job 6:5

⁵Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?