Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
Should your babble put others to silence, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
“But you are obsessed with the case of the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
All who hear the words of this oath and bless themselves, thinking in their hearts, ‘We are safe even though we go our own stubborn ways’ (thus sweeping away the moist with the dry)—