Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

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WEBBE

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

BSB

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure — those who carry their god in their hands.

KJV

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

ASV

The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].

BBE

There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 6–11

Job appeals to facts. The most audacious robbers, oppressors, and impious wretches, often prosper. Yet this is not by fortune or chance; the Lord orders these things. Worldly prosperity is of small value in his sight: he has better things for his children. Job resolves all into the absolute proprietorship which God has in all the creatures. He demands from his friends liberty to judge of what they had said; he appeals to any fair judgment. (Job 12:12-25)

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