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Job 12:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

one mocked: Job 11:3, Job 16:10, Job 17:2, Job 17:6, Job 21:3, Job 30:1; Psalms 22:7-8, Psalms 35:16; Matthew 27:29; Hebrews 11:36

calleth: Job 16:20; Psalms 91:15; Jeremiah 33:3; Micah 7:7

the just: Proverbs 14:2; Mark 5:40; Luke 16:14; Acts 17:32

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