Job 12:4

I am a laughter to his friend: He calls to God, and He answers him, || A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.

Literal 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

3I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, || And with whom is there not like these?

5A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure || Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

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Cross References

Job 11:3Your boastings make men keep silent, || You scorn, and none is causing blushing!

Job 16:20My interpreter [is] my friend, || My eye has dropped to God;

Job 17:6And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, || And I am a wonder before them.

Job 30:1“And now, laughed at me, || Have the younger in days than I, || Whose fathers I have loathed to set || With the dogs of my flock.

Psalms 35:16With profane ones, mockers in feasts, || Gnashing their teeth against me.

Proverbs 14:2Whoever is walking in his uprightness is fearing YHWH, || And the perverted is despising Him [in] his ways.

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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