Parallel Verses
Webster
I am as one mocked by his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is derided.
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!
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 am not inferior to you: yes, who knoweth not such things as these? 4 I am as one mocked by his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is derided. 5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Cross References
Job 17:6
He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to 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 honor him.
Job 16:10
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me.
Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
Job 6:29
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Job 11:3
Should thy falsehoods make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.
Psalm 22:7-8
All they that see me deride me: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Psalm 35:16
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Proverbs 14:2
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Micah 7:7
Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: 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, Hail, King of the Jews?
Mark 5:40
And they derided him: but when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth 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 concerning this matter.
Hebrews 11:36
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, and, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: