Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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!
Webster
I am as one mocked by his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is derided.
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 Like you, I also have understanding. I'm not inferior to you; who doesn't know things like this?" 4 "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. 5 The carefree are thinking, "I have contempt for misfortune,' Those who are about to stumble deserve it.
Cross References
Job 17:6
"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face.
Job 21:3
Bear with me and let me speak! Then, after I've spoken, you'll be free to mock me.
Job 30:1
"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.
Psalm 91:15
When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him in his distress. I will deliver him, and I will honor him.
Job 16:10
People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.
Job 17:2
Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.
Job 6:29
Repent! Let there be no injustice; Change your ways! My vindication is at stake.
Job 11:3
Will your irrational babble silence people, and when you mock them, will you escape without being shamed?
Job 16:20
My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,
Psalm 22:7-8
Everyone who sees me mocks me; they gape at me with open mouths and shake their heads at me.
Psalm 35:16
Malicious mockers they gnashed their teeth against me.
Proverbs 14:2
Someone whose conduct is upright fears the LORD, but whoever is devious in his ways despises him.
Jeremiah 33:3
"Call to me and I'll answer you, and will tell you about great and hidden things that you don't know.'
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God who will deliver me. My God will hear me.
Matthew 27:29
Twisting some thorns into a victor's crown, they placed it on his head and put a stick in his right hand. They knelt down in front of him and began making fun of him, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"
Mark 5:40
They laughed and laughed at him. But when he had driven all of them outside, he took the child's father and mother, along with the men who were with him, and went into the room where the child was.
Luke 16:14
Now the Pharisees, who love money, had been listening to all this and began to ridicule Jesus.
Acts 17:32
When they heard about a resurrection of the dead, some began joking about it, while others said, "We will hear you again about this."
Hebrews 11:36
Still others endured taunts and floggings, and even chains and imprisonment.