Job 30:1

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But now, those younger than I mock me—people whose fathers I would have refused to place with my sheepdogs.

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  • Job 12:4 : 4 "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!"
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me. 14 My relatives have ceased to be close, and my close friends have forgotten me. 15 The guests in my house and my maidservants regard me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must plead with him with my own mouth. 17 My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own children. 18 Even little children despise me; when I rise, they speak against me. 19 All my close friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.
  • Job 29:8-9 : 8 the young men saw me and stepped aside, and the aged stood and rose to their feet. 9 Leaders refrained from speaking and laid their hands on their mouths. 10 The voices of nobles quieted, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; attackers I did not know came against me, ripping at me without ceasing. 16 Like godless mockers at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 I wore sackcloth as my clothing and became a byword to them.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 The people will oppress one another—man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will act arrogantly toward the elderly, and the dishonored against the honored.
  • Mark 14:65 : 65 Then some began to spit on him. They blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, "Prophesy!" And the guards took him and beat him.
  • Mark 15:17-20 : 17 They dressed Him in a purple robe, and after twisting together a crown of thorns, they placed it on Him. 18 They began to salute Him, saying, 'Hail, King of the Jews!' 19 They kept striking His head with a staff, spitting on Him, and kneeling down in mock worship of Him. 20 After they had mocked Him, they took off the purple robe and put His own clothes back on Him. Then they led Him out to crucify Him.
  • Luke 23:14 : 14 and said to them, 'You brought this man to me as one who is misleading the people. Now look, after examining Him in your presence, I have found no basis for your charges against Him.
  • Luke 23:18 : 18 But they all cried out together, 'Away with this man, and release Barabbas to us!'
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even mocked Him, saying, 'He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.'
  • Luke 23:39 : 39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at Him, saying, 'Aren't You the Christ? Save Yourself and us!'
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews, becoming jealous, gathered some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob, and caused an uproar in the city. They attacked Jason's house, seeking to bring Paul and Silas out to the assembly.
  • Titus 1:12 : 12 One of their own prophets has said, 'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons.'
  • 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and mocked him. 'Get out of here, baldy!' they said. 'Get out of here, baldy!'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 30:2
    84%

    2Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18Even little children despise me; when I rise, they speak against me.

    19All my close friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.

  • Job 15:10
    73%

    10Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, men much older than your father.

  • Job 30:7-13
    7 verses
    73%

    7Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

    8They are sons of fools, nameless men, driven out from the land.

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

    10They detest me and keep far from me; they do not refrain from spitting in my face.

    11Because God has loosened my cord and afflicted me, they throw off all restraint in my presence.

    12On my right-hand side, the mob rises up; they push away my feet and build up their ways of destruction against me.

    13They tear up my path; they help advance my ruin, even though no one comes to assist them.

  • Job 29:8
    72%

    8the young men saw me and stepped aside, and the aged stood and rose to their feet.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

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

    16Like godless mockers at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

  • Prov 30:31
    71%

    31a strutting rooster, a he-goat, and a king secure against revolt.

  • Ps 31:11
    71%

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

  • Job 17:2
    71%

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

  • Lam 3:14
    71%

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

  • Ps 22:16
    70%

    16My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

  • Job 16:10
    70%

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

  • Ps 73:15
    70%

    15If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed Your children.

  • Prov 17:6
    70%

    6Children’s children are the crown of the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Job 31:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep—

    21If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my support in the gate,

  • Job 17:6
    70%

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

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

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

    7But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

  • Job 16:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7Surely now, God has worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

    8You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

  • Ps 119:51
    69%

    51The arrogant mock me incessantly, but I do not turn away from Your law.

  • Prov 1:30
    69%

    30They would have none of my counsel and despised all my correction.

  • Ps 71:9
    69%

    9Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.

  • Jer 3:24
    69%

    24From our youth, shame has consumed all that our ancestors worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

  • Prov 30:17
    69%

    17The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

  • Isa 3:5
    69%

    5The people will oppress one another—man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will act arrogantly toward the elderly, and the dishonored against the honored.

  • Job 12:3
    69%

    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?"

  • Job 19:3
    69%

    3You have insulted me ten times now; you are not even ashamed that you mistreat me.

  • Gen 31:38
    69%

    38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks.

  • Job 18:3
    69%

    3Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

  • Ps 22:13
    69%

    13Many bulls surround me; strong ones of Bashan encircle me.

  • Prov 1:26
    69%

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

  • Hab 1:10
    69%

    10They mock kings, and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to capture it.

  • Job 31:13
    68%

    13If I have denied justice to my male or female servants when they had a grievance against me,

  • Ps 17:11
    68%

    11They track my every step; they surround me and set their eyes to bring me down to the ground.

  • Lam 3:4
    68%

    4He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

  • Job 16:20
    68%

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

  • Ezek 34:19
    68%

    19Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

  • Job 29:24
    68%

    24When I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it; and the light of my face brought them no discouragement.

  • Lam 3:11
    68%

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Job 32:6
    68%

    6So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said, "I am young in years, and you are old; therefore, I held back and was afraid to tell you what I think.