to slip with his feet] By calamities, as I am.
as a lamp despised] Isaiah 7:4. and Isaiah 42:3. As men esteem not a torch, that goeth out: so is he despised that falleth from prosperitie to adversitie, Psalms 31:15. and 38. 17, 19. Jerem. 20. 10.
that is at ease] He that is at ease, whom no man troubles, hath no experience, nor cannot judge rightly of my estate: Such are ye my friends.