Job 12:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

Job 12:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Psalms 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.
Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Job 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.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Blessing Enquiring of God Importunity Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

The reproofs Job here gives to his friends, whether they were just or no, were very sharp, and may serve for a rebuke to all that are proud and scornful, and an exposure of their folly. I. He upbraids them with their conceitedness of themselves, and the good opinion they seemed to have of their own wisdom in comparison with him, than which nothing is more weak and unbecoming, nor better deserves t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. The unfounded accusations of Job’s friends were a “mockery” of him. He alludes to Zophar’s word, “mockest” (Job 11:3). neighbour, who calleth, &c.--rather, “I who call upon God that he may answer me favorably” [Umbreit].