Job 12:4
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
5The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
Cross References
Job 11:3Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
Job 17:6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
Job 30:1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
Psalms 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Proverbs 14:2He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises 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 →