Job 12:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.

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  • Job 17:6 : 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 ¶ But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
  • Job 6:29 : 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying], 8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
  • Ps 35:16 : 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Prov 14:2 : 2 ¶ He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but [he that is] perverse in his ways despiseth him.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
  • Mic 7:7 : 7 ¶ Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put [it] upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
  • Mark 5:40 : 40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 ¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter].
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

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  • Ps 52:6-7
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    6 ¶ The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

    7 Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  • Ps 22:6-7
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    6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

    7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],

  • 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?

  • 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

  • 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

  • 13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

  • 19 The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

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

  • 5 He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

  • 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  • 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment.

  • Job 16:20-21
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    20 My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.

    21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!

  • 2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

  • 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

  • 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

  • 7 What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?

  • Job 21:3-4
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    3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

    4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 7 ¶ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

  • 24 [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

  • 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

  • 32 For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.

  • 5 ¶ Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: [and] he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

  • 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

  • 1 ¶ I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

  • 8 Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

  • 41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

  • 12 For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

  • 1 ¶ Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

  • 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

  • 5 If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:

  • 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

  • 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.

  • 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • 9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

  • 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

  • 15 Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.

  • 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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    4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

  • 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

  • 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

  • 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 12 Behold, [in] this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

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

    20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].

  • 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.