Job 12:4 Cross References - Leeser

⁴ I am as one laughed at by his friend, who calleth upon God, while he answered him: yea, a laughing-stock though righteous and innocent.

²⁹ Reflect again, I pray you, there will be no wrong: yea, reflect once more, my righteousness will be found therein.

³ Thy inventions are to bring men to silence; and when thou utterest thy mocking no one is to cause thee to feel abashed!

¹⁰ They now open wide against me their mouth; reproachfully they smite my cheek: altogether do they assemble against me.

²⁰ Are my friends my defenders? unto God my eye poureth out its tears.

² Yet truly those that mock are with me, and on their offendings must my eye rest.

⁶ And he hath placed me here as a by-word unto nations; and I become openly as a place of abomination.

³ Bear with me that I may indeed speak: and after my speaking, then canst thou mock.

¹ But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.

^{7 (22:8)} All those who see me laugh me to scorn: they draw open their lips, they shake their head, saying, ^{8 (22:9)} “Let him throw himself on the Lord, that he may deliver him: he will save him, for he delighteth in him.”

¹⁶ With hypocritical babbling mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: with him will I be in distress; I will deliver him, and grant him honor.

² In his uprightness walketh he that feareth the Lord; but perverse in his ways is he that despiseth him.

³ Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will tell thee great and unheard of things, which thou knowest not.

⁷ But I—I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.