Job 12:4

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Summary

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

One mocked

Calleth

The just

Bible References

One mocked

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

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

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.

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

Calleth

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

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.

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.

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.

The just

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.

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.

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

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.