King James Version (KJV)
Job 12:5
“He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.”
Verse in context — Job 12
3
But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4
I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.
5
He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
7
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
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