Job 12:4

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Job 11:3

Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

Job 12:5

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!

Job 13:18

See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.

Job 16:10

People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

Job 16:20

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

Job 17:2

Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

Job 17:6

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

Job 21:3

Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.

Job 30:1

“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

Job 30:9

“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

Job 6:29

Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

Job 9:21

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

Psalm 35:16

When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

Psalm 91:15

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.

Proverbs 14:2

The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but the one who is perverted in his ways despises him.

Jeremiah 20:7

Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.

Jeremiah 33:3

‘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.’

Micah 7:7

But I will keep watching for the Lord; I will wait for the God who delivers me. My God will hear my lament.

Matthew 27:29

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!”

Matthew 9:24

he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep.” And they began making fun of him.

Mark 5:40

And they began making fun of him. But he put 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

The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.

Acts 17:32

Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”

Hebrews 11:36

And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.