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

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

Calleth

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

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

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

The just

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."