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Job 12:4

Job 12:4 (WEB)

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

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  • “…to this passage by help of other quotations; as when Job himself said: “For although I am a righteous and blameless man, I have become a subject for mockery,”—not understanding that a man may be called righteous, who has gone so far towards perfection in righteousness as to be very near it; and this we do not deny to…” — editor's note: Job xii. 4.

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