Job 12:5 Douay-Rheims

The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.

Francis Patrick Kenrick

1796–1863 Catholic

The meaning of V. is, that the just man, who is oompared to a lamp dimly shining, in the estimate of the rich, is reserved to shine with increased lustre at a time divinely appointed. P. "He that is ready to slip with hit feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease." A man ready to totter and foil in business pursuits, is compared, by the prosperous, to a lamp that is dying out

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1863 · Job 12:5

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