What man is like Job? He drinks derision like water.
how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, “I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.” This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.
They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
I am a laughing-stock to my friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and blameless man is a laughing-stock.
A worthless witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you?
Yet now you are obsessed with the judgement due the wicked; judgement and justice have seized you.
