He that is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The lamp. Such is the just man, who under affliction is (Haydock) exposed to the ridicule of men who live at their ease.
For. Hebrew, "to fall. "(Calmet) Septuagint, "It was appointed for me to fall under others at the time fixed."
49. What is denoted in this place by the title of the ‘rich,’ but the highmindedness of the proud, who have no respect for the judge that shall come, while they are swollen with proud thoughts within themselves? For there are some that by a fortune are not lifted up in pride, but elevated thereby through works of mercy. And there are some who, while they see that they overflow with earthly resources, do not look for the true riches of God, and have no affection to the eternal land, for they think that this is enough for them, that they are set up with temporal goods. The fortune then is not in fault, but the feeling. For all things that God created are good, but he who uses good things amiss, assuredly brings it about that as it were through gluttonness of greedy appetite, he perishes by the bread whereby he ought to live. The beggar Lazarus attained to rest, but torments racked the proud rich one. And yet Abraham was rich, who held Lazarus in his bosom. Yet holding commune with...
“Did I lose my common sense, by any chance,” Job says, “because I fell into misery?” Here he presents himself as a righteous man, not by testifying to his perfect virtue but to the fact that he did not do anything wrong to anyone and that nobody can blame him. “And that my houses should be spoiled by transgressors,” it was necessary that this happened, he says. It had been ordained from above. “However,” he says, “do not believe that these misfortunes will stop for me. Indeed, if I, who have committed no act of injustice, suffer so, the wicked will suffer even more so.” - "Commentary on Job 12.2–5"
