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Originally Posted by sophronismos
Job 12:5 KJV "He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease."
But what the KJV has could hardly be said by Job of himself but seems more or less to be a proverb that no man can decipher. I sure wish someone would help me out in deciphering it.
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"a torch" (lamp) is an object of contempt in the thoughts of him who rests securely (is at ease), though it was prepared for the falterings of the feet (Proverbs 25:19). "Thoughts" and "feet" are in contrast; also rests "securely," and "falterings." The wanderer, arrived at night time, contemptuously throws aside the torch which had guided his uncertain steps through the darkness. As the torch is to the wanderer, so Job to his friends. Once they gladly used his aid in their need; now they in prosperity mock him in his need.
Read the other refs pertaining to torch, lamp that guides the feet. Throw away the lamp, and you slip with your feet.