Job 12:4
Job 12:4 American Standard Version (ASV)
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.
Job 12:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
“I am one mocked by his friends, Who called on God, and He answered him, The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
Job 12:4 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Job 12:4-6 The Message (MSG)
“I’m ridiculed by my friends: ‘So that’s the man who had conversations with God!’ Ridiculed without mercy: ‘Look at the man who never did wrong!’ It’s easy for the well-to-do to point their fingers in blame, for the well-fixed to pour scorn on the strugglers. Crooks reside safely in high-security houses, insolent blasphemers live in luxury; they’ve bought and paid for a god who’ll protect them.
Job 12:4 King James Version (KJV)
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, Who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: The just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Job 12:4 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
Job 12:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“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].
Job 12:4 New Living Translation (NLT)
Yet my friends laugh at me, for I call on God and expect an answer. I am a just and blameless man, yet they laugh at me.
Job 12:4 New Century Version (NCV)
My friends all laugh at me when I call on God and expect him to answer me; they laugh at me even though I am right and innocent!
Job 12:4-6 The Message (MSG)
“I’m ridiculed by my friends: ‘So that’s the man who had conversations with God!’ Ridiculed without mercy: ‘Look at the man who never did wrong!’ It’s easy for the well-to-do to point their fingers in blame, for the well-fixed to pour scorn on the strugglers. Crooks reside safely in high-security houses, insolent blasphemers live in luxury; they’ve bought and paid for a god who’ll protect them.
Job 12:4 King James Version (KJV)
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, Who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: The just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Job 12:4 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
Job 12:4 New Century Version (NCV)
My friends all laugh at me when I call on God and expect him to answer me; they laugh at me even though I am right and innocent!
Job 12:4 American Standard Version (ASV)
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.
Job 12:4 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
‘I have become a laughing-stock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered – a mere laughing-stock, though righteous and blameless!
Job 12:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
“I am one mocked by his friends, Who called on God, and He answered him, The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
Job 12:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“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].