Job 12:4
A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?
5A torch — despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
Cross References
Job 11:3Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!
Job 16:20My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
Job 17:6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
Job 30:1And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
Psalms 35:16With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.
Proverbs 14:2Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted [in] his ways is despising 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 →