Job 12:4

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:6 : 6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honor him.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
  • Job 6:29 : 29 Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying] , 8 Commit [thyself] unto Jehovah; Let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.
  • Ps 35:16 : 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Prov 14:2 : 2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.
  • Mic 7:7 : 7 But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 And they platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
  • Mark 5:40 : 40 And they laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all forth, taketh the father of the child and her mother and them that were with him, and goeth in where the child was.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

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    26 I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

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    19 The righteous see it, and are glad; And the innocent laugh them to scorn,

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    14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

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    6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

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  • Job 16:20-21
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    20 My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

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    2 Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

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    11 Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

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    3 Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

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    7 What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,

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    3 Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.

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    7 O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.

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    24 I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

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    23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

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    32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.

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    5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; [And] he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

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    4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

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    1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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    3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.

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    41 All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

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    5 For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

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    10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

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    9 And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

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    15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

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    6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

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    4 He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.

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    19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

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    14 Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.