Job 17:2

English Standard Version 2016

Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

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My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land.

Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?