Parallel Verses
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;
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 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 understanding as well as you; I do not fall short of you; yes, who does not know such things as these? 4 I am a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery; 5 a flaming brand despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; it is ready for those with slipping feet.
Cross References
Job 17:6
He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.
Job 21:3
Rise with me and I shall speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
Job 30:1
But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock.
Psalm 91:15
He shall call on Me, and I will answer Him; I will be with Him in trouble; I will deliver Him, and honor Him.
Job 16:10
They have gaped on me with their mouth; and have scornfully beaten me on the cheek; they gather themselves against me.
Job 17:2
Are not mockeries with me? Yea, my eye rests on their insults.
Job 6:29
Turn back, please let there be no sin; yea, return again, my righteousness is in this matter.
Job 11:3
Should your lies make men silent? And will you mock and no one make you ashamed?
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 shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,
Psalm 35:16
with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed on me with their teeth.
Proverbs 14:2
He who walks in his uprightness fears Jehovah, but he who is perverse in his ways despises Him.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and inscrutable things which you do not know.
Micah 7:7
Therefore I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me!
Matthew 27:29
And plaiting a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Mark 5:40
And they laughed at Him. But when He had put them all out, He took the father and the mother of the child, and those with Him, and went in where the child was lying.
Luke 16:14
And being money-lovers, all the Pharisees also heard all these things. And they derided Him.
Acts 17:32
And hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked; and others said, We will hear you again concerning this.
Hebrews 11:36
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings; yes, more, of bonds and imprisonments.