Job 12:6 “The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— t…”

Job 12:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.

Darby Translation

The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth.

Young's Literal Translation

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

Bible in Basic English

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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Cross references

“tabernacles”

Job 9:24 Job 21:7–15 Psalm 17:14 Psalm 37:1 Psalm 37:35 Jeremiah 5:27

Job 9:24 · BSB

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Job 21:7–15 · BSB

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

Psalm 17:14 · BSB

from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

Psalm 37:1 · BSB

Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

Psalm 37:35 · BSB

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Jeremiah 5:27 · BSB

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

Also

Job 22:18

Job 22:18 · BSB

But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

7But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

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