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HE THAT IS READY TO SLIP WITH HIS FEET - The man whose feet waver or
totter; that is, the man in adversity; see Proverbs 25:19. A man in
prosperity is represented as standing firm; one in adversity as...
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CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR
_ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_
2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7)
3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1)
4. He appeals to God ...
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Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the
ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's
wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only
wise...
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There is contempt for misfortune in the thought of him that is at
ease,
It awaiteth them who are slipping with their foot.
Zophar's references for Job's advantage to the Divine wisdom and
might impl...
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Job laments how low he had fallen when men thought to instruct him, a
man of God, with such primary truths regarding God's operation in the
world. Yet it was but an illustration of the general truth
r...
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DISCOURSE: 463
A WANT OF SYMPATHY CONDEMNED
Job 12:5. _He that is ready to slip with his feet it as a lamp
despised in the thought of him that it at ease_.
THE friends of Job meant well: but, mistaki...
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IS READY, &C.— This is much more beautiful in the original. It is a
metaphor taken from the archer, whose arrow is fitted to the string,
and ready to be discharged. The word שׁאנן _shaanan,_ here
rend...
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G. COURAGEOUS CONFRONTATIONJOB'S RESPONSE (Job 12:1, Job 14:22)
1. He ridicules the wisdom and judgment of his friends. (Job 12:1-6)
TEXT 12:1-6
12 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 No doubt but ye ar...
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_HE THAT IS READY TO SLIP WITH HIS FEET IS AS A LAMP DESPISED IN THE
THOUGHT OF HIM THAT IS AT EASE._
Lamp - a torch. "Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble
is like a broken tooth, and a...
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12:5 ease. (g-22) Or 'Contempt for misfortune is, in the thought of
him that is at ease, prepared for those whose feet totter.'...
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RV 'In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for
misfortune; it is ready for them whose foot slippeth.' An allusion to
the way his friends treat him now that he is in trouble. How easy...
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JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (JOB 12-14)
The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know
that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but
experience shows that His power and wisd...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 12
JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
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People often say stupid things to someone who is suffering. Perhaps
they do not try to understand the problem. Or perhaps they talk too
much. Sometimes it is better just to listen. Often our prayers a...
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IS AS A LAMP DESPISED IN THE THOUGHT OF HIM THAT IS AT EASE. — This
rendering conveys no sense. The meaning is either that the lamp or
torch prepared for feet tottering and uncertain in the darkness i...
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XII.
BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD
Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1
Job SPEAKS
ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set
down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
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“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS”
Job 12:1
Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness
invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he
bitterly complains that his...
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Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well
as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills
with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guilt...
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(d) He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised
in the thought of him that is at ease.
(d) As the rich do not esteem a light or torch that goes out, so he
despised he that falls...
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_The lamp. Such is the just man, who under affliction is (Haydock)
exposed to the ridicule of men who live at their ease. --- For.
Hebrew, "to fall." (Calmet) Septuagint, "It was appointed for me to
f...
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(1) В¶ And Job answered and said, (2) No doubt but ye are the
people, and wisdom shall die with you. (3) But I have understanding as
well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such
th...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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HE THAT IS READY TO SLIP WITH [HIS] FEET,.... Not into sin, though
this is often the case of good men, but into calamities and
afflictions; and Job means himself, and every just upright man in the
lik...
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He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in
the thought of him that is at ease.
Ver. 5. _He that is ready to slip with his feet_] He who is in a
declining, tottering condition...
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_He that is ready to slip with his feet_ The just man, last mentioned,
who is ready to fall, or has already fallen into trouble; _is as a
lamp despised_ That is, like a lamp or torch, which, while it...
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THE STRANGE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS.
If Zophar's arguments had been valid and Job's suffering was to be
regarded as the direct punishment for a specific sin, then his faith
in the justice of God...
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He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the
thought of him that is at ease, literally, "For misfortune scorn,
according to the opinion of the prosperous, ready for those whose...
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JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM
(vv.1-25)
Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are
the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied
that h...
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Job also resents his "comfortable" friends telling him how to handle
adversity. "It seemed so unfair, Job observed, for men at ease (like
the three advisers!) to have such an attitude toward his misfo...
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1-5 Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their
own wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches,
and to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; th...
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i.e. The just man last mentioned, who is upon the brink of the pit or
grave, ready to fall into mischief, so as never to rise again in this
world, which is my case, and the occasion of their scorn and...
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Job 12:5 lamp H3940 despised H937 thought H6248 ease H7600 ready H3559
(H8737) feet H7272 slip H4571 ...
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CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends.
CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all
things by rules with which t...
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Job 12:6. _The tabernacles of robbers prosper._ Or as it might be
rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers;
referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the
fo...
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_But I have understanding as well as you._
THE EFFECT OF THE FRIENDS’ SPEECHES UPON JOB
The whole world, Job feels, is against him, and he is left forlorn and
solitary, unpitied in his misery, unguid...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:1 In the longest response of the dialogues with
his three friends, Job shows his growing frustration with their claims
of wisdom (even though he agrees with them about God’s supreme...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:4 Job argues that his friends’ understanding of
wisdom seems to ignore both the suffering of the righteous and the
security of the wicked. Furthermore, while true wisdom would make...
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_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_
I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in
Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2).
His defence is:—
1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and
wisd...
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EXPOSITION
The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters
(Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion
of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
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So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and
wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2).
He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers,
and they're not...
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Amos 6:1; Deuteronomy 32:35; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 16:4; Job 18:5;...
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Slip with his feet — And fall into trouble; tho' he had formerly
shone as a lamp, he is then looked upon as a lamp going out, as the
snuff of a candle, which we throw to the ground and tread upon; and...