Job 12 Footnotes

12:4-6 Skeptics have imagined a contradiction between God’s apparent reward of evildoers and the psalmist’s declaration of their disastrous end (Ps 34:21; 37:35-38). In his reversals, losses, and the resultant suffering, Job was far more aware of the great injustices in this present world. The Scriptures affirm that evildoers’ own wickedness will cause them earthly and eternal ruin (Ps 1:4-5; Pr 11:5; Mt 25:26).