Job 17:2

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

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

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

He himself shall abide in prosperity, and his children shall possess the land.

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

Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?