Job 12:4

I am as a laughingstock to his neighbor: 1 The man who calleth upon Eloah [they say of me], and He answereth him! 1 [To them I am] a laughingstock, the tzaddik, the tamim (blameless one)! 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 levav (understanding) as well as you; 1 I am not inferior to you; 1 yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 1

5Those at ease have buz (contempt) 1 for a downfall which awaits 1 the one whose regel is slipping. 1

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Cross References

Job 11:3Should thy vain talk silence men, 1 so that thou mockest, v'ein machlim (without anyone putting thee to shame)? 1

Job 16:20My friends scorn me; 1 but mine eye poureth out tears unto Eloah. 1

Job 17:6He hath made me also a mashal (byword) of the peoples; 1 and I am one in whose face they spit. 1

Job 30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, 1 whose avot I would have disdained to have set 1 with the dogs of my tzon. 1

Psalms 35:16Like chanef (hypocritical) mockers at cake, 1 they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 1

Proverbs 14:2He that walketh in his yashar feareth Hashem, 1 but he that is devious in his drakhim despiseth Him. 1

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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