Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who shall not be able to say as much again?
4
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and
Cross References
Job 17:6
He has made me a byword of the peoples; and before them I have been as a tambourine.
Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
Job 30:1
But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Psalm 91:15
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and glorify him.
Job 16:10
They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Job 17:2
Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.
Job 6:29
Turn now, and there is no iniquity; return again to look for my righteousness in this.
Job 11:3
Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 16:20
Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.
Psalm 22:7-8
All those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Psalm 35:16
With immature hypocritical mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Proverbs 14:2
He that walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he that is perverse in his ways despises him.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and difficult things, which thou dost not know.
Micah 7:7
Therefore I will wait for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my saving health; my God will hear me.
Matthew 27:29
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Receive joy, King of the Jews!
Mark 5:40
And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel and those that were with him and entered in where the damsel was lying.
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.
Acts 17:32
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Hebrews 11:36
and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;