Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Job 12:6
Job shows that the matter of fact opposes Zophar's theory (Job 11:14, Job 11:19-20) that wickedness causes insecurity in men's "tabernacles." On the contrary, they who rob the "tabernacles" ("dwellings") of others "prosper securely" in their own.
into whose hand, etc.—rather, "who make a god of their own hand," that is, who regard their might as their only ruling principle [UMBREIT].
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