Job 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
King James Version
In Context
5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Cross References
Job 11:3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 16:20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job 17:6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job 30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Psalms 35:16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Proverbs 14:2He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways 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 →