Job 12:4

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Job 12:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

3 But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

5 The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 11:3

Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

Job 16:10

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Job 17:2

Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

Job 17:6

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

Job 21:3

Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

Job 30:1

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

Psalms 22:7

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

Psalms 22:8

“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

Psalms 35:16

Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Matthew 27:29

And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand and knelt down before Him to mock Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Hebrews 11:36

Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

Job 16:20

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

Psalms 91:15

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Proverbs 14:2

He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.

Mark 5:40

And they laughed at Him. After He had put them all outside, He took the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and went in to see the child.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

Acts 17:32

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”