2007-04-26 08:50:50 · 9 answers · asked by crusadawannabe 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Basically its Job saying to his accusers who are saying its Job's 'wickedness" is the reason for everything happening to him. "Fellas, you have it easy. All right. So you can despise me because I'm about ready to slip in the pit. Just because you're at ease, you can say these things. But if things were reversed, you wouldn't find these words so easy."
In the next verse Job responds to them, "So, you tell me that it's because I'm so wicked that I've lost everything. But look, the tents of the robbers prosper."
There was this basic fallacy of their whole arguments. Because their arguments have been predicated upon, "Surely if you are righteous, you're going to be blessed of God. And that the blessings of God are more or less proof of your righteousness. Or the plague that you're experiencing is the proof of your sinfulness." It is not always show as the rest of the Bible ... and life shows.
2007-04-26 09:05:03 · answer #1 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Book of Job was written as a protest against a school of thought that came to be known as Deuteronomism (since it was predominant in the Book of Deuteronomy). Their belief was that God rewarded those who faithfully obeyed his laws, and punished those who didn't. Job's author was pointing out the reality that a lot of good people died young, poor and miserable, while a lot of bad people died old and happy.
Job 12:5 suggests that people with the fortune to be born into a comfortable, secure life can easily believe that God's justice and mercy are operating in perfect harmony for everyone. Those who aren't know very well that stuff happens and God's justice can look mighty obscure to the one who is familiar with the down side of life. The author didn't have a better answer than "God only knows," but at least he questioned the dominant assumption.
2007-04-26 16:14:44 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Job 6:3 + Job 6:2
2007-04-26 15:54:20 · answer #3 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
This is according to the GWT translation:
Job 12:5: "A person who has an easy life has no appreciation for misfortune. He thinks it is the fate of those who slip up."
2007-04-26 15:55:58 · answer #4 · answered by 42 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It means that someone who was born with a silver spoon in their mouth and has always had everything they wanted handed to them thinks that people who are having problems brought them upon themselves.
2007-04-26 16:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by jeff7272 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"In the thought of the complacent there is contempt for calamity: It is ready for those whose foot slips."
An apt description of the people of Sodom who refused to take seriously the warning of the impending disaster conveyed by God's messengers.
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2007-04-26 16:43:14 · answer #6 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A person who has an easy life has no appreciation for misfortune. He thinks it is the fate of those who slip up.
2007-04-26 15:56:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
When you have begun to consider yielding to temptation you don't want to be shown the error of your ways.
2007-04-26 15:56:21 · answer #8 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some BS anyways. Don't bother.
2007-04-26 15:54:29 · answer #9 · answered by Atheist Eye Candy 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋