The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
Cross References
Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure--those who carry their god in their hands.
Psalm 123:4We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
Treasury of Scripture
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
ready
Deuteronomy 32:35
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Psalm 17:5
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Psalm 94:18
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
a lamp
Job 18:5
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
of him
Job 6:5
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 16:4
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Psalm 123:3,4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt…
