Job 12:4
He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
5The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.
Cross References
Job 11:3Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee?
Job 16:20For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
Job 17:6He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
Job 30:1But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:
Psalms 35:16They were separated, and repented not : they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn : they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Proverbs 14:2He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, Cis despised by him that goeth by an infamous 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 →