Job 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
5Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.
Cross References
Job 11:3Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
Job 16:20My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
Job 17:6Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
Job 30:1Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.
Psalms 35:16With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.
Proverbs 14:2He that walketh in his righteousnes, feareth the Lord: but he that is lewde in his wayes, 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 →