Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord.
like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
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