Job 12:4

I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?

5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose foot slips.

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Cross References

Job 11:3Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Job 16:20My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God

Job 17:6But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

Job 30:1But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Psalms 35:16Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Proverbs 14:2He who walks in his uprightness fears LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Matthew Henry on Job 12:2-6

Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 And Job answered and said, 2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 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. 5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. The reproofs Job here gives to his friends,… Read the whole commentary →

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