Job 12:4

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

Bible in Basic English

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 a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

5In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

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Cross References

Job 11:3Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

Job 16:20My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

Job 17:6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

Job 30:1But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

Psalms 35:16Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Proverbs 14:2He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

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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