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Job 12:4
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Job 12:4
4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he answereth him: the iust vpright man is laughed to scorne.
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Job 12:4
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ridiculed or treated with contempt.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Straight or erect; also honest, just, and faithful to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To express mirth, joy, or gladness by laughter; also to laugh at in mockery, scorn, or derision, as the context shows.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Contempt or disdain; as a verb, to mock, despise, or reject contemptuously.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study1BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
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Open the full verse study6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Open the full verse study3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
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Open the full verse study15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
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Open the full verse study3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
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Open the full verse study10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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Open the full verse study2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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Open the full verse study7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
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Open the full verse study32¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
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Open the full verse study36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
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Open the full verse study3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
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Open the full verse study20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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Open the full verse study29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
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Open the full verse study14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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Open the full verse study40And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
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Open the full verse study29¶ And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
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Open the full verse study7Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
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Open the full verse study2He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
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Open the full verse study16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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