Job 12:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, A man that called upon God, and he answered him: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ I am as one mocked of his neighbour, Who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: The just upright man is laughed to scorn.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ I am become one who is a laughingstock to his friend; I, one whom God answered when he called upon Him–a just, upright (blameless) man–laughed to scorn!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ I’m a joke to friends who called to God and he answered; the innocent and blameless one is a joke,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God: and he will hear him. For the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

Job 12:4 Cross References

Job 11:3

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Job 12:5

In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth

Job 13:18

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I am righteous.

Job 16:10

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

Job 17:2

Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye abideth in their provocation.

Job 17:6

He hath made me also a byword of the people; And I am become an open abhorring.

Job 21:3

Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.

Job 30:1

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:9

And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scorning like water?

Job 6:29

Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

Job 9:21

I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life

Psalm 35:16

Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalm 91:15

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honour him.

Proverbs 14:2

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

Jeremiah 20:7

O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughingstock all the day, every one mocketh me.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will shew thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Matthew 27:29

And they plaited a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

Matthew 9:24

he said, Give place: for the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

Mark 5:40

And they laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all forth, taketh the father of the child and her mother and them that were with him, and goeth in where the child was.

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.

Acts 17:32

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again.

Hebrews 11:36

and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: