Job 12:4

World English Bible (2000)

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:6 : 6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Allow me, and I also will speak; 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 put with my sheep dogs.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He will call on 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 have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
  • Job 6:29 : 29 Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying, 8 "He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."
  • Ps 35:16 : 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
  • Prov 14:2 : 2 He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
  • Mic 7:7 : 7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
  • Mark 5:40 : 40 They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 52:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

    7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

    7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

  • 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

  • 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

  • 26 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

  • 13 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

  • 19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

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

  • 5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

  • 6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 16:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

    21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

  • 2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

  • 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

  • 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

  • 7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

  • Job 21:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 7 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.

  • 24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

  • 23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

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

  • 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

  • 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

  • 1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

  • 8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

  • 41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

  • 1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

  • 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

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

  • 5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

  • 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 on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • 9 "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

  • 16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

  • 15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

  • 6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • 69%

    4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

  • 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

  • 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

  • Job 30:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

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

    20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

  • 14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.