Verse 5

Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance and recompence are mine: their foote shall slide in due time: for the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come vpon them, make haste.
  • Job 6:5 : 5 Doeth the wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe when he hath fodder?
  • Job 16:4 : 4 I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,
  • Job 18:5 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.
  • Ps 17:5 : 5 Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feete doe not slide.
  • Ps 94:18 : 18 When I said, My foote slideth, thy mercy, O Lord, stayed me.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Haue mercie vpon vs, O Lorde, haue mercie vpon vs: for we haue suffered too much contempt. 4 Our soule is filled too full of ye mocking of the wealthy, & of the despitefulnes of the proude.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous reioyceth: but the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 He that curseth his father or his mother, his light shalbe put out in obscure darkenes.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Giue glory to the Lorde your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse.
  • Amos 6:1-6 : 1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and trust in the moutaine of Samaria, which were famous at the beginning of the nations: and the house of Israel came to them. 2 Goe you vnto Calneh, and see: and from thence goe you to Hamath the great: then goe downe to Gath of the Philistims: be they better then these kingdomes? or the border of their land greater then your border, 3 Ye that put farre away the euill day, and approch to the seate of iniquitie? 4 They lie vpon beddes of yuorie, & stretch themselues vpon their beddes, & eate the lambes of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall. 5 They sing to the sounde of the viole: they inuent to themselues instruments of musike like Dauid. 6 They drinke wine in bowles, and anoynt themselues with the chiefe ointments, but no man is sory for the affliction of Ioseph.
  • Matt 25:8 : 8 And the foolish said to the wise, Giue vs of your oyle, for our lampes are out.
  • Luke 12:19 : 19 And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime.
  • Luke 16:19-20 : 19 There was a certaine riche man, which was clothed in purple and fine linnen, and fared well and delicately euery day. 20 Also there was a certaine begger named Lazarus, which was laide at his gate full of sores,