Cross References

Job 17:2

New English Translation

Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

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Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.

If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.

As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the sovereign One, and resides in the protective shadow of the mighty king –