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

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.

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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

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0

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