Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 12:4

"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 (ASV)

I am as one mocked of his neighbour. —The laughingstock 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 of his friends—the righteous and the perfect a laughingstock, or, the righteous and the perfect might be a laughingstock. Ridicule is no test of truth or of merit.