Job 12:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered– a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:6 : 6 He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
  • Job 6:29 : 29 Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads. 8 They say,“Commit yourself to the LORD! Let the LORD rescue him! Let the LORD deliver him, for he delights in him.”
  • Ps 35:16 : 16 When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.
  • Prov 14:2 : 2 The one who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is perverted in his ways despises him.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 ‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.’
  • Mic 7:7 : 7 But I will keep watching for the LORD; I will wait for the God who delivers me. My God will listen to me.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him:“Hail, king of the Jews!”
  • Mark 5:40 : 40 And they began making fun of him. But he forced them all outside, and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 More Warnings about the Pharisees The Pharisees(who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said,“We will hear you again about this.”
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

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    6When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying:

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  • Ps 22:6-7
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    6But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

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    9Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?

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    3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

  • Prov 1:26
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    26so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

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    13The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.

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    19The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

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

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    5For calamity, there is derision(according to the ideas of the fortunate)– a fate for those whose feet slip!

  • Job 17:6
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    6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

  • Job 19:7
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    7Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 16:20-21
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    20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

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  • Job 17:2
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    2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

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    11Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

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    3Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?

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    7What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

  • Job 21:3-4
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    3Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.

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  • Jer 20:7
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    7Jeremiah Complains about the Reaction to His Ministry LORD, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.

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    24If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

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    23If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

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    32For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

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    5The one who mocks the poor has insulted his Creator; whoever rejoices over disaster will not go unpunished.

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    4We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

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    1א(Alef) The Prophet Speaks: I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.

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    3When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.

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    8Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.

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    41All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

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    12Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.

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    15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

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    5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

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    5For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

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    6For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.

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    10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

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    9Job’s Indignities“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

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    16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.

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    15Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

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    6You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.

  • Ps 2:4
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    4The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.

  • Job 27:9
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    9Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?

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    13You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

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    12Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

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    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

    20I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

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    14I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.