What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?
How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their 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 imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
An ungodly witness scorns judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
