Job 12:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

I am like one mocked by his neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

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  • Job 17:6 : 6 He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Allow me to speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to 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 honor him.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.
  • Job 6:29 : 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted in the LORD that He would deliver him; let Him deliver him, since 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 who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises Him.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
  • Mic 7:7 : 7 Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 And when they had twisted 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 took the father and the mother of the girl, and those who were with him, and entered in where the girl was lying.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they ridiculed him.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, We will hear you again on this matter.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Still others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.

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    3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: indeed, who does not know such things as these?

  • Prov 1:26
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    26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

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

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    14I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

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    5He who is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease.

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    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

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    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

  • Job 16:20-21
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    20My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

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    2Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?

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    11I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintances: those who saw me outside fled from me.

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    3Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

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    3Allow me to speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

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    7O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.

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    23If the scourge slays suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

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    32For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment.

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    5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

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    4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

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    3I have heard the rebuke of my dishonor, and the spirit of my understanding prompts me to respond.

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    8Upright men shall be appalled at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

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    41All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

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    1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

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    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

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    5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

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    5For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my justice.

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    6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.

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    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • Job 30:9
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    9And now I am their song, yes, I am their byword.

  • Ps 44:16
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    16For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.

  • Job 9:15
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    15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would plead with my Judge.

  • Ps 80:6
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    6You make us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • Ps 2:4
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    4He who sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

  • Job 27:9
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    9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

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    13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us.

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    3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

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    12Behold, in this you are not just; I will answer you, that God is greater than man.

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    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

    20I cry to You, and You do not hear me: I stand up, and You regard me not.

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    14Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no responses.