What man is like Iyov, who drinks scorn like water,
Should your boastings make men hold their shalom? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
*But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
*How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have shalom, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
