King James Version
Job 12:5 in the King James Version says “He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.” — study this verse from Job chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.”
Job 12:5 · KJV
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? understanding: Heb. an heart I am: Heb. I fall not lower than you who: Heb. with whom are not such as these?
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“He that is ready”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
“with his feet”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
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