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Job 17:2

Modern English Version

Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

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Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, will no one shame you?

“I am a laughingstock to my neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him; the righteous, upright man is a laughingstock.

Is it good that He would search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you so mock Him?

My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears unto God.

“And He has made me a byword of the people, someone in whose face they spit.

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

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

He will dwell at ease, and his descendants will inherit the land.

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