Job 12:6
Strong's Lexicon
The tents
אֹֽהָלִ֨ים ׀ (’ō·hā·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 168: 1) tent 1a) nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience 1b) dwelling, home, habitation 1c) the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)

of robbers
לְשֹׁ֥דְדִ֗ים (lə·šō·ḏə·ḏîm)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7703: 1) to deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin, destroy, spoil 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to violently destroy, devastate, despoil, assail 1a2) devastator, despoiler (participle) (subst) 1b) (Niphal) to be utterly ruined 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to assault 1c2) to devastate 1d) (Pual) to be devastated 1e) (Poel) to violently destroy 1f) (Hophal) to be devastated

are safe,
יִשְׁלָ֤יוּ (yiš·lā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7951: 1) to be at rest, prosper, be quiet, be at ease 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be or have quiet 1a2) to be at ease, prosper

and those who provoke
לְמַרְגִּ֣יזֵי (lə·mar·gî·zê)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 7264: 1) tremble, quake, rage, quiver, be agitated, be excited, be perturbed 1a)(Qal) to quake, be disquieted, be excited, be perturbed 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to quake, disquiet, enrage, disturb 1c) (Hithpael) to excite oneself

God
אֵ֑ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 410: 1) god, god-like one, mighty one 1a) mighty men, men of rank, mighty heroes 1b) angels 1c) god, false god, (demons, imaginations) 1d) God, the one true God, Jehovah 2) mighty things in nature 3) strength, power

לַאֲשֶׁ֤ר (la·’ă·šer)
Preposition-l | Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: 1) (relative part.) 1a) which, who 1b) that which 2) (conj) 2a) that (in obj clause) 2b) when 2c) since 2d) as 2e) conditional if

are secure—
וּֽ֭בַטֻּחוֹת (ū·ḇaṭ·ṭu·ḥō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 987: 1) security, safety

those who carry
הֵבִ֖יא (hê·ḇî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to enter, come in 1a2) to come 1a2a) to come with 1a2b) to come upon, fall or light upon, attack (enemy) 1a2c) to come to pass 1a3) to attain to 1a4) to be enumerated 1a5) to go 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead in 1b2) to carry in 1b3) to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon 1b4) to bring to pass 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought, brought in 1c2) to be introduced, be put

their god
אֱל֣וֹהַּ (’ĕ·lō·w·ah)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 433: 1) God 2) false god

in their hands.
בְּיָדֽוֹ׃ (bə·yā·ḏōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3027: 1) hand 1a) hand (of man) 1b) strength, power (fig.) 1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.) 1d) (various special, technical senses) 1d1) sign, monument 1d2) part, fractional part, share 1d3) time, repetition 1d4) axle-trees, axle 1d5) stays, support (for laver) 1d6) tenons (in tabernacle) 1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure) 1d8) wrists

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The tents of  robbers are safe,  and those who provoke  God are secure; God’s power provides this.   

New American Standard Bible
"The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.

King James Bible
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure-- those God has in his hand.

New Living Translation
But robbers are left in peace, and those who provoke God live in safety--though God keeps them in his power.

English Standard Version
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.

New American Standard Bible
"The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure; God's power provides this.

International Standard Version
The tents of robbers are at rest, and those who provoke God are secure, that is, those who carry their god in their pocket.

NET Bible
But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident--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 .

English Revised Version
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

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
















Cross References
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Job 12:5
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Job 12:7
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Job 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 24:23
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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