Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Job 12:4
I am to be one that is a laughing-stock to his friends,
I, who called on God and he answered me:
A laughing-stock the just and perfect man!
I am to be one that is a laughing-stock to his friends,
I, who called on God and he answered me:
A laughing-stock the just and perfect man!
Verse Job 12:4. _I AM_ AS _ONE MOCKED OF HIS NEIGHBOUR_] Though I am invoking God for help and salvation, yet my friends mock me in this most solemn and sacred work. But God answereth me. _THE JUST...
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 felt himself to be a mere laughing-stock for his neighbors...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
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 this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only wise...
GOD Hebrew Eloah. App-4....
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 of the righteous man is become a scoff." _He hath ap...
G. COURAGEOUS CONFRONTATIONJOB'S RESPONSE (Job 12:1, Job 14:22) 1. He ridicules the wisdom and judgment of his friends. (Job 12:1-6) TEXT 12:1-6 12 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 No doubt but ye ar...
_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 unfounded accusations of Job's friends were a 'mockery' of him...
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 righteous, but experience shows that His power and wisd...
WHO CALLETH] RV '_A man_ that called.' Job complains that he, a servant of God, has become the subject of mockery....
People often say stupid things to someone who is suffering. Perhaps they do not try to understand the problem. Or perhaps they talk too much. Sometimes it is better just to listen. Often our prayers a...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 12 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
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 character Job claims for himself, or it is the supposed taunt...
שְׂחֹ֤ק לְ רֵעֵ֨הוּ ׀ אֶֽהְיֶ֗ה קֹרֵ֣א לֶ֭ אֱ
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS” Job 12:1 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains that his...
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 sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guilt...
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 reproves his friends for two faults: one, that they thoug...
_Mocked. He retaliates on Sophar, (chap. xi. 3.; Haydock) who had very seriously exhorted Job to call on God, as if he had been ignorant of this duty. (Calmet) --- God will one day force the wicked to...
(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 am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 concerning God, his immensity, sovereignty, and wisdom, I sho...
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 mocked of his neighbour_] Those that should countena...
_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 was a derision to all my people, Lamentations 3:14...
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 called to God and found a hearing, who had made the wo...
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 a specific sin, then his faith in the justice of God...
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 will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied that h...
Job has looked for sympathy but received scorn. "Their inflexible approach to justice that God always blesses the upright does not fit the facts. Job illustrated his point in several ways. First he ci...
1-5 Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their own wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches, and to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; th...
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) _to my neighbour_, i.e. to these three, who have preten...
Job 12:4 mocked H7814 friends H7453 called H7121 (H8802) God H433 answered H6030 (H8799) just H6662 blameless...
CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all things by rules with which t...
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 Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the fo...
_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 to “who” seems to be uncertain. It may be Job; it ma...
_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 left forlorn and solitary, unpitied in his misery, unguid...
A LAUGHING-STOCK A laughing-stock to his neighbor. Job 12:4. Hands up those who like to be laughed at! Ah! I thought so! Not a hand to be seen. Hands up those who like to laugh at others! What! Stil...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:1 In the longest response of the dialogues with his three friends, Job shows his growing frustration with their claims of wisdom (even though he agrees with them about God’s supreme...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:4 Job argues that his friends’ understanding of wisdom seems to ignore both the suffering of the righteous and the security of the wicked. Furthermore, while true wisdom would make...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_ I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2). His defence is:— 1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and wisd...
EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters (Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2). He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers, and they're not...
Acts 17:32; Hebrews 11:36; Jeremiah 33:3; Job 11:3; Job 16:10;...
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 just — I, who, notwithstanding all their hard censur...