Verse 4

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

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.