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In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune, It is ready for them whose foot slips.
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The Contempt of the Comfortable
All commentators agree on the verse's central message: people living in ease and prosperity often look down on those experiencing misfortune. Matthew Henry notes this is 'the way of the world.' Job accuses his friends of this very attitude, suggesting their counsel comes not from wisdom but from a place of comfortable detachment and scorn for his suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
19th Century
Anglican
Is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. —This rendering conveys no sense. The meaning is either that…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
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…
