Job 12:4

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"I have become a laughingstock to my friends, I who called on God and He answered me, a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!"

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  • Job 17:6 : 6 He has made me a byword among the peoples, and I have become one at whom they spit.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, you may mock.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 But now, those younger than I mock me—people whose fathers I would have refused to place with my sheepdogs.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He will 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 gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My intercessors are my friends; my eye drips to God.
  • Job 6:29 : 29 Relent, let there be no injustice; yes, relent, my righteousness still stands.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Will your empty talk silence others? Will you mock without anyone to rebuke you?
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. 8 All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
  • Ps 35:16 : 16 Like godless mockers at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
  • Prov 14:2 : 2 Whoever walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one whose ways are devious despises Him.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
  • Mic 7:7 : 7 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 They twisted a crown of thorns and placed it on His head, and they put a staff in His right hand. Then they knelt before Him in mockery and said, 'Hail, King of the Jews!'
  • Mark 5:40 : 40 But they laughed at Him. After He put them all outside, He took the child's father, mother, and those with Him and went into the room where the child was lying.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and sneered at him.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock, but others said, 'We want to hear you again on this matter.'
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Still others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

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    6To you they cried out and were delivered; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

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    9Would it be well when He examines you? Could you deceive Him as you deceive a mortal?

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    3"But I too have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know things such as these?"

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    26I too will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

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    13The Lord laughs at him because He sees that his day is coming.

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    19The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them.

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    14I have become the laughingstock of all my people; their mocking song all day long.

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    5"Those who are at ease hold contempt for misfortune, as if it were prepared for the feet of those slipping."

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    6He has made me a byword among the peoples, and I have become one at whom they spit.

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    7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

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    20My intercessors are my friends; my eye drips to God.

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    2Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.

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    11My life is consumed with grief and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasting away.

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    3Will your empty talk silence others? Will you mock without anyone to rebuke you?

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    3Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, you may mock.

    4Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

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    7LORD, you deceived me, and I was deceived. You overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me.

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    23When a scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

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    32For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together.

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    4We have become an object of scorn to our neighbors, mocked and ridiculed by those around us.

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    15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; attackers I did not know came against me, ripping at me without ceasing.

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    5If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

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    5For Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.'

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    6For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools—this too is meaningless.

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    10They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.

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    9And now I have become their taunt; I am a byword among them.

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    16All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face.

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    4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

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    3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

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    12But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than a man.

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    19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

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    14But I am like a deaf man who does not hear, and like a mute man who cannot open his mouth.