Job 12:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

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  • Job 17:6 : 6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
  • Job 6:29 : 29 Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say, 8 He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.
  • Ps 35:16 : 16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
  • Prov 14:2 : 2 He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.
  • Mic 7:7 : 7 But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.
  • Mark 5:40 : 40 And they were laughing at him. But he, having sent them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:

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  • Ps 22:6-7
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    6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

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  • Job 12:3
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    3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

  • Prov 1:26
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    26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

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    13 He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

  • Job 22:19
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    19 The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

  • Lam 3:14
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    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

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    5 In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

  • Job 17:6
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    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • Job 19:7
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    7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • Job 16:20-21
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    20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

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  • Job 17:2
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    2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

  • Ps 31:11
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    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

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    3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

  • Job 34:7
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    7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

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    3 Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

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  • Jer 20:7
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    7 O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.

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    24 I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

  • Job 9:23
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    23 If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

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    32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

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    5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

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    4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

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    1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

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    3 I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

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    8 The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

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    41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

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    1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

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    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • Job 34:5
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    5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

  • Eccl 7:6
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    6 Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

  • Job 16:10
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    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Job 30:9
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    9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

  • Ps 44:16
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    16 Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

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    15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

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    6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

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    4 Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

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    9 Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

  • Ps 44:13
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    13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

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    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

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    12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

  • Job 30:19-20
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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

    20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

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    14 So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.