He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
One of the ways to understand this verse is that the believer who is ready to slip away from God is like a lamp that is almost out of fuel and no longer produces light.
Like salt that has lost its savor.
I think this is an incorrect understanding, given the context.
It is, I think, more likely that the one who is ready to slip is Job. He obviously has not lost his savor, nor has his light gone dim. His lamp has plenty of fuel, his relationship with God is intact.
But he is a light shining into the darkness. He exposes sin. He exposes fleshly faith. He exposes the false relationships so many have with God.
The darkness, in this case, is “him that is at ease.”
There is much to learn from the man who walks with God in the depth of pain.
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