What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water;
How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?
and it happens when he hears the words of this curse, that he shall bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to snatch away the drunken with the thirsty.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
I am a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery;
An ungodly witness scorns judgment, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Should your lies make men silent? And will you mock and no one make you ashamed?
But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold;