What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This would lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
“But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
