5 Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
5 In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
5 It's easy for the well-to-do to point their fingers in blame, for the well-fixed to pour scorn on the strugglers.
5 A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease; It is made ready for those whose feet slip.
5 People who are at ease mock those in trouble. They give a push to people who are stumbling.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 12:5
Commentary on Job 12:1-5
(Read Job 12:1-5)
Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their own wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches, and to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; this is our folly; yet here was colour for this charge. He suspected the true cause of their conduct to be, that they despised him who was fallen into poverty. It is the way of the world. Even the just, upright man, if he comes under a cloud, is looked upon with contempt.