Job 12:4

GOD Hebrew Eloah. App-4.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am as one mocked of his neighbour - There has been considerable variety in the interpretation of this verse. The general sense is, that Job fel...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I am (b) [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he (c) answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn. (b) He reprov...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's wisdom. Job answers t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. I am as one mocked of...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I am as one mocked of his neighbour— I am a mocking-stock to my neighbour. "He hath appealed to God, to be sure he will answer him! The integrity...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. Mocked. The unfoun...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Third Speech (Job 12-14) The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also r...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Who calleth] RV ' A man that called.' Job complains that he, a servant of God, has become the subject of mockery.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I am as one mocked of his neighbour. — The laughing-stock of his companion — he who called on God, and He answered him. This is either the characte...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which mu...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“God's Paths in Deep Waters” Job 12:1-25 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills with sarca...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ And Job answered and said, (2) No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. (3) But I have understanding as well as you; I a...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour ,.... That is, according to Sephorno, if I knew not, or denied those things you have been speaking of concerni...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn. Ver. 4. Iam as one...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I am as one mocked of his neighbour שׂחק לרעהו אהיה, sechok leregnehu ehjeh , literally, a jest to his friend, I am. Thus Jeremiah complains, I...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM (vv.1-25) Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 A...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As one mocked of his neighbour, Heb. I am a derision (the infinitive being put for a noun, as is usual both in the Hebrew and other languages) t...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech ( Job 12:2-3 ). His defence is:— 1. Ironi...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 12:6 . The tabernacles of robbers prosper. Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to...
The Biblical Illustrator

But I have understanding as well as you. The effect of the friends’ speeches upon Job The whole world, Job feels, is against him, and he is lef...
The Biblical Illustrator

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and He answereth. The man who gets answers may mock him who gets none The antecedent...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters ( Job 12:1-18 ; Job 13:1-18 ; Job 14:1-18 .). It is thought to f...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Strange Good Fortune of the Godless. If Zophar's arguments had been valid and Job's suffering was to be regarded as the direct punishment for...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I am as one mocked of his neighbor, he had become a laughing-stock to his own friends, who calleth upon God, and He answereth him, that is, I who c...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 17:32 ; Hebrews 11:36 ; Jeremiah 33:3 ; Job 11:3 ; Job 16:10 ; Job 16:20 ; Job 17:2 ; Job 17:6 ; Job 21:3 ; Job 30:1 ; Luke 16:14 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Upon God — Even by my religious neighbours, by those who call upon God, and not in vain; whose prayers therefore I covet, not their reproaches. The...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 12:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 12:4