Job 12:4

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

American Standard 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: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

5In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

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Cross References

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

Job 16:20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

Job 17:6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

Job 30:1But now they that 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 that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; But he that is perverse 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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