Job 12:4

New International Version

“I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!

Cross References

Job 11:3

Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?

Job 12:5

Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Job 13:18

Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.

Job 16:10

People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.

Job 16:20

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

Job 17:2

Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

Job 17:6

“God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

Job 21:3

Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

Job 30:1

“But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

Job 30:9

“And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

Job 34:7

Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water?

Job 6:29

Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.

Job 9:21

“Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Psalm 35:16

Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked; they gnashed their teeth at me.

Psalm 91:15

He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.

Proverbs 14:2

Whoever fears the Lord walks uprightly, but those who despise him are devious in their ways.

Jeremiah 20:7

You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me.

Jeremiah 33:3

‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

Matthew 27:29

and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said.

Matthew 9:24

he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him.

Mark 5:40

But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.

Acts 17:32

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”

Hebrews 11:36

Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.