Job 12:4

I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and he answered him: the just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

Revised Version 1895

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 understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

5In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

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Cross References

Job 11:3Should thy boastings 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 I am become an open abhorring.

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

Psalms 35:16Like the profane 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 →

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