He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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Gill's Exposition
The tabernacles of robbers prosper,.... Such as the Chaldeans and Sabeans, who had robbed Job of his substance, and filled their houses with the spoils of others, and lived in the greatest fulness and…
Barnes' Notes
He that is ready to slip with his feet - The man whose feet waver or totter; that is, the man in adversity; see Pro 25:19. A man in prosperity is represented as standing firm; one in adversity as…
The reproofs Job here gives to his friends, whether they were just or no, were very sharp, and may serve for a rebuke to all that are proud and scornful, and an exposure of their folly.
I. He upbraids…
Cambridge Bible
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…
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