Job 12:4

A laughing-stock to one’s neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock—a righteous man without blame!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?

5For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease,—ready, for such as are of faltering foot!

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Cross References

Job 11:3Shall, thy pratings, cause men to hold their peace? When thou hast mocked, shall there be none to put thee to shame?

Job 16:20And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears:—

Job 17:6But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.

Job 30:1But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused—to set with the dogs of my flock.

Psalms 35:16Amidst profane praters of perversion, have they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Proverbs 14:2He that walketh in his uprightness, is one who revereth Yahweh, but, he that is crooked in his way, is one who 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 →

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