Job 12:4

I am as one laughed at by his friend, who calleth upon God, while he answered him: [yea,] a laughing-stock though righteous and innocent.

Leeser Tanakh

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 sense like you; I do not fall short compared with you: and who possesseth not such things as these?

5To the unfortunate there is given contempt— according to the thoughts of him that is at ease— prepared [also] for those whose foot slippeth.

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Cross References

Job 11:3Thy inventions are to bring men to silence; and when thou utterest thy mocking no one is to cause thee to feel abashed!

Job 16:20Are my friends my defenders? unto God my eye poureth out [its tears].

Job 17:6And he hath placed me here as a by-word unto nations; and I become openly as a place of abomination.

Job 30:1But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.

Psalms 35:16With hypocritical babbling mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Proverbs 14:2In his uprightness walketh he that feareth the Lord; but perverse in his ways is he that 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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