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Job 21:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on.

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Should your babble put others to silence, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him as one person deceives another?

They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

“Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

All of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?