Job 12:4

I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].

Darby Translation

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

3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?

5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

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Cross References

Job 11:3Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?

Job 16:20My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Job 17:6And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.

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

Psalms 35:16With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

Proverbs 14:2He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; but he that is perverted in his ways despiseth 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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