Job 12:6 KJV
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Matthew Henry
- The wicked often prosperJob appeals to facts. The most audacious robbers, oppressors, and impious wretches, often prosper. Yet this is not by fortune or chance; the Lord orders...
Thompson Chains
- Apparent InjusticeStarts here · next Ecclesiastes 9:2 · 4 links
- Prosperity (1)Starts here · next Psalms 37:35 · 4 links
Cross References
- Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
- Job 21:7–15 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? …
- Psalms 73:11–12 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? …
- Job 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- Psalms 17:14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
- Psalms 37:1 <A Psalm of David.> Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
- Jeremiah 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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Topics
- God Providence of, mysterious and misinterpreted
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Philosophy Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and His providence
- Wicked (people) Prosperity of Wicked
Bible Dictionary
- God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...
Hebrew and Strong’s
- The tabernacles אֹהָלִים ʾōhālîm אֹהֶל Noun · masculine plural
- of robbers לְשֹׁדְדִים lĕšōdĕdîm שָׁדַד Verb · qal active participle, masculine plural · with preposition
- prosper יִשְׁלָיוּ yišlāyû שָׁלָה Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine plural
- and they that provoke לְמַרְגִּיזֵי lĕmargîzê רָגַז Verb · hiphil active participle, masculine plural construct · with preposition לַאֲשֶׁר laʾăšer Relative · with preposition
- God אֵל ʾēl אֵל Noun · masculine singular
- are secure וּבַטֻּחוֹת ûbaṭṭuḥôt בַּטֻּחוֹת Noun · feminine plural · with and
- into whose hand בְּיָדוֹ bĕyādô יָד Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with preposition, suffix: third person masculine singular
- God אֱלוֹהַּ ʾĕlôah אֱלוֹהַּ Noun · masculine singular
- bringeth הֵבִיא hēbîʾ בּוֹא Verb · hiphil perfect, third person masculine singular
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