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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    6The righteous also shall see it, and feare, and shall laugh at him, saying,

    7Beholde 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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    6But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 7Beholde, 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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    20My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

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

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

  • 11I 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 7O 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 12Surely 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.

  • 1O 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?

  • 15But 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,

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

  • 5For 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 12Behold, 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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    19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.

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

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