Job 12:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.”
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“I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter <FI>is<Fi> the perfect righteous one.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 12:4 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 6:29Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
- Job 11:3Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- Job 16:10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
- Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
- Job 17:2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
- Job 17:6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- Job 21:3Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
- Job 30:1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
- Psalms 22:7All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
- Psalms 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Psalms 91:15When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
- Proverbs 14:2He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.
- Jeremiah 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
- Micah 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- Matthew 27:29And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand and knelt down before Him to mock Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
- Mark 5:40And they laughed at Him. After He had put them all outside, He took the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and went in to see the child.
- Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.
- Acts 17:32When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
- Hebrews 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
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