Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 12:6:
Job 12:7-8
Job 12:9
Job 15:17
Job 15:28
Ecclesiastes 7:7
Jeremiah 12:1
Habakkuk 1:11
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