Job 12:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

Cross References

Job 11:3

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

Job 12:5

In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Job 13:18

See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

Job 16:10

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

Job 16:20

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

Job 17:2

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

Job 17:6

He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

Job 21:3

Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

Job 30:1

But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

Job 30:9

And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

Job 6:29

Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

Job 9:21

I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

Psalm 35:16

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Psalm 91:15

When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

Proverbs 14:2

He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

Jeremiah 20:7

O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.

Jeremiah 33:3

Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.

Matthew 27:29

And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.

Matthew 9:24

He said, Make room; for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they were laughing at him.

Mark 5:40

And they were laughing at him. But he, having sent them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

Acts 17:32

Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

Hebrews 11:36

And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons: