Job 12:4
He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
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In Context
5The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.
Cross References
Job 11:3Will men be silent only for you? And when you have mocked others, will no one refute you?
Job 16:20For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
Job 17:6He has posted me like a proverb to the people, and I am an example in their presence.
Job 30:1But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,
Proverbs 14:2One who walks on a virtuous journey, and who fears God, is despised by him who advances along a disreputable way.
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 →