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.

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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.

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