Job 12:4
2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
- KJV
- I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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].
- BLB
- I have become a laughingstock to his neighbor, one calling on God and He answered him, righteous [and] blameless—a laughingstock.
- ÅB
- Til spott for mine venner er jeg, jeg som ropte til Gud og fikk svar; til spott er jeg, den rettskafne og ulastelige.
- OTB
- Jeg har blitt en spøk for mine venner,
jeg som kalte på Gud og ble besvart—
en rettferdig og skyldfri mann har blitt en spøk. - B1930
- Til spott for mine venner er jeg, jeg som ropte til Gud og fikk svar; til spott er jeg, den rettskafne og ulastelige.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Read in contextJob 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Read in contextPsalms 91:15
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Read in contextJob 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Read in contextPsalms 22:7–8
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Read in contextJob 16:10
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Read in contextJob 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Read in contextJeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
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