Job 30:1

Job's Final Defense Continued

¹ “But now those younger than I mock and laugh at me,
Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.
²
“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

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Job 12:4

“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].

2 Kings 2:23

Then Elisha went up from Jericho to Bethel. On the way, young boys came out of the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

Job 19:13-19

“He has put my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Job 29:8-10

The young men saw me and hid themselves,
The aged arose and stood [respectfully];

Psalm 35:15-16

But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me];
The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me;
They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.

Psalm 69:12

They who sit in the [city’s] gate talk about me and mock me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The boy will be arrogant and insolent toward the elder
And the vulgar (common) toward the honorable [person of rank].

Mark 14:65

And some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to Him, “Prophesy [by telling us who hit you]!” Then the officers took custody of Him and struck him in the face.

Mark 15:17-20

They dressed Him up in [a ranking Roman officer’s robe of] purple, and after twisting [together] a crown of thorns, they placed it on Him;

Luke 23:14

and said to them, “You brought this man before me as one who corrupts and incites the people to rebellion. After examining Him before you, I have found no guilt in this Man regarding the charges which you make against Him.

Luke 23:18

But they [loudly] shouted out all together, saying, “Away with this Man, and release Barabbas to us!”

Luke 23:35

Now the people stood by, watching; but even the rulers ridiculed and sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others [from death]; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) of God, His Chosen One.”

Luke 23:39

One of the criminals who had been hanged [on a cross beside Him] kept hurling abuse at Him, saying, “Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us [from death]!”

Acts 17:5

But the [unbelieving] Jews became jealous, and taking along some thugs from [the lowlifes in] the market place, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and then attacking Jason’s house tried to bring Paul and Silas out to the people.

Titus 1:12

One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”