What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
and it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swallows iniquity.
Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?
But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold,
