What man is like Iyoḇ
Should your babblings silence men? And should you mock, and no one make you ashamed?
I have become a laughing-stock to my friends – one who has called on Eloah and He answered him! A laughing-stock is the righteous, the perfect one!
how much less one who is loathsome and corrupt, drinking unrighteousness like water!
But you are filled with the judgment of the wrong, judgment and right-ruling take hold of you.
“How long, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
A witness of Beliyaʽ
For they have eaten the bread of wrongdoing, And they drink the wine of violence.
“And it shall be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ in order to add drunkenness to thirst.
