Job 12:6
Good News Translation
But thieves and godless people live in peace, though their only god is their own strength.

New Revised Standard Version
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.

Contemporary English Version
Robbers and other godless people live safely at home and say, "God is in our hands!"

New American Bible
Yet the tents of robbers are prosperous, and those who provoke God are secure, whom God has in his power.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

tabernacles

Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

Job 21:7-15 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? . . .

Psalm 17:14 From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.

Psalm 37:1,35 Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity. . . .

Psalm 73:11,12 And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? . . .

Jeremiah 5:27 As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.

Context
Job Responds to Zophar
5The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed. 6The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.…
Cross References
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

Job 12:5
The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.

Job 12:7
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.

Job 21:7
Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

Job 21:9
Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

Job 22:18
Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.

Job 24:23
God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon his ways.

Psalm 92:7
When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

Jeremiah 12:1
Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

Job 12:5
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