Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.
New American Standard Bible
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and
King James Version
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Holman Bible
by calling on God, who answers me.
The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
International Standard Version
"I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.
A Conservative Version
I am as a man who 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
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.
Amplified
“I am a joke to my friends;
I, one whom God answered when he called upon Him—
A just and blameless man is a joke [and laughed to scorn].
Bible in Basic English
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!
Darby Translation
I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man.
Julia Smith Translation
I shall be he laughing at his neighbor, calling to God, and he will answer him: the just blameless one being laughed at
King James 2000
I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Modern King James verseion
I am a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thus, he that calleth upon God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neighbour; the godly and innocent man is laughed to scorn.
NET Bible
I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered -- a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
New Heart English Bible
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
The Emphasized Bible
A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock - a righteous man without blame!
Webster
I am as one mocked by his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is derided.
World English Bible
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
Youngs Literal Translation
A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.
Themes
Justice » The wicked » Afflict those who act with
Scorning and mocking » Saints endure, on account of » Their uprightness
Topics
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech
3 {I also have insight} like you; I am not more inferior than you. And {who does not know things like these}? 4 I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock. 5 {Those at ease have contempt} for [the] thought of {disaster}, [but it is] ready for those unstable of foot.
Cross References
Job 17:6
"And he has made me a proverb for [the] peoples, {and I am one before whom people spit}.
Job 21:3
Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.
Job 30:1
"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.
Psalm 91:15
He will call upon me and I will answer him; I [will be] with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him.
Job 16:10
They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me.
Job 17:2
{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation.
Job 6:29
Please turn, let no injustice happen; indeed, turn, {my righteousness is still intact}.
Job 11:3
Should your loose talk put people to silence? {And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame}?
Job 16:20
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Psalm 22:7-8
All [who] see me mock me. They open wide [their] lips; they shake [the] head, [saying]:
Psalm 35:16
Among [the] ungodly of the mockers at feasts, [they] gnashed at me with their teeth.
Proverbs 14:2
He who walks in uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is devious [in] his ways displeases him.
Jeremiah 33:3
'Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great [things] and inaccessible [things that] you have not known.'
Micah 7:7
But [as for] me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Matthew 27:29
and weaving a crown of thorns, they put [it] on his head, and [put] a reed in his right hand. And kneeling down before him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
Mark 5:40
And they began laughing at him. But he sent [them] all out [and] took along the father and mother of the child, and those [who were] with him, and went in to where the child was.
Luke 16:14
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these [things], and they ridiculed him.
Acts 17:32
Now [when they] heard about the resurrection of the dead, [some] scoffed, but [others] said, "We will hear you about this again also."
Hebrews 11:36
And others {experienced mocking and flogging}, and in addition bonds and imprisonment.