I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, A man that called upon God, and he answered him: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Job 11:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Should your boastings and babble make men keep silent? And when you mock and scoff, shall no man make you ashamed? American Standard Version (1901) Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Common English Bible Will your idle talk silence everyone; will you mock and not be put to shame? Catholic Public Domain Version Will men be silent only for you? And when you have mocked others, will no one refute you? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall men hold their peace to thee only? And when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee? |
I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, A man that called upon God, and he answered him: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye abideth in their provocation.
Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.
how that they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.