He that is ready to slip with his feet — The man whose feet waver or totter; that is, the man in adversity . A man in prosperity is…

Is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. —This rendering conveys no sense. The meaning is either that…

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 affl…

Job rebukes his friends for the high opinion they had of their own wisdom compared to his. We are prone to interpret rebukes as criticisms and to t…

In the previous chapter, Zophar had tried to show that a person cannot understand the secrets of God’s wisdom (Job 11:6) in order to in…