What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
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.
How much more abhorred and corrupt is man, who drinks iniquity like water!
But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge.
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
and it happens that, when he hears the words of this covenant, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” thus destroying the watered ground with the dry.
