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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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GOD Hebrew Eloah. App-4....
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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!...
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Job laments how low he had fallen when men thought to instruct him, a
man of God, with such primary truths regarding God's operation in the
world. Yet it was but an illustration of the general truth
r...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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שְׂחֹ֤ק לְ רֵעֵ֨הוּ ׀ אֶֽהְיֶ֗ה
קֹרֵ֣א לֶ֭ אֱ
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 12:4 mocked H7814 friends H7453 called H7121 (H8802) God H433
answered H6030 (H8799) just H6662 blameless...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 17:32; Hebrews 11:36; Jeremiah 33:3; Job 11:3; Job 16:10;...
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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...