Job 12:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.

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  • Job 17:6 : 6 Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He shall call vpon me, and I wil heare him: I will be with him in trouble: I will deliuer him, and glorifie him.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 There are none but mockers with mee, & mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
  • Job 6:29 : 29 Turne, I pray you, let there be none iniquitie: returne, I say, and ye shall see yet my righteousnesse in that behalfe.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? & when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying, 8 He trusted in the Lorde, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.
  • Ps 35:16 : 16 With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.
  • Prov 14:2 : 2 He that walketh in his righteousnes, feareth the Lord: but he that is lewde in his wayes, despiseth him.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shewe thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.
  • Mic 7:7 : 7 Therefore I will looke vnto the Lorde: I will waite for God my Sauiour: my God will heare me.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 And platted a crowne of thornes, and put it vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, saying, God saue thee King of the Iewes,
  • Mark 5:40 : 40 And they laught him to scorne: but hee put them all out, and tooke the father, and the mother of the childe, and them that were with him, and entred in where the childe lay,
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 All these thinges heard the Pharises also which were couetous, and they scoffed at him.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection from the dead, some mocked, and other sayde, We will heare thee againe of this thing.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment.

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  • Ps 52:6-7
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    6 The righteous also shall see it, and feare, and shall laugh at him, saying,

    7 Beholde the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and put his strength in his malice.

  • Ps 22:6-7
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    6 But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.

    7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,

  • 9 Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?

  • 3 But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?

  • 26 I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.

  • 13 But the Lord shall laugh him to scorne: for he seeth, that his day is comming.

  • 19 The righteous shal see them, & shal reioyce, and the innocent shal laugh them to scorne.

  • 14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • 5 Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.

  • 6 Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.

  • 7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

  • Job 16:20-21
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    20 My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

    21 Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!

  • 2 There are none but mockers with mee, & mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.

  • 11 I was a reproch among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and a feare to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the streete, fled from me.

  • 3 Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? & when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?

  • 7 What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?

  • Job 21:3-4
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    3 Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.

    4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 7 O Lorde, thou hast deceiued me, and I am deceiued: thou art stronger then I, and hast preuailed: I am in derision daily: euery one mocketh me.

  • 24 If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall.

  • 23 If the scourge should suddely slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?

  • 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

  • 5 Hee that mocketh the poore, reprocheth him, that made him: and he that reioyceth at destruction, shall not be vnpunished.

  • 4 Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.

  • 1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

  • 3 I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

  • 8 The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite.

  • 41 All that goe by the way, spoyle him: he is a rebuke vnto his neighbours.

  • 12 Surely mine enemie did not defame mee: for I could haue borne it: neither did mine aduersarie exalt himselfe against mee: for I would haue hid me from him.

  • 1 O Lorde, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse?

  • 15 But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,

  • 5 But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,

  • 5 For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, & God hath taken away my iudgement.

  • 6 (7:8) For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.

  • 10 They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

  • 9 And now am I their song, and I am their talke.

  • 16 For the voyce of the slaunderer and rebuker, for the enemie and auenger.

  • 15 For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplicatio to my Iudge.

  • 6 Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at vs among themselues.

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    4 But he that dwelleth in the heauen, shall laugh: the Lord shall haue them in derision.

  • 9 Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?

  • 13 Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.

  • 3 And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.

  • 12 Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.

  • Job 30:19-20
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    19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.

    20 Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.

  • 14 Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.