Will your idle talk silence men and will no one rebuke you when you mock?
Surely mockers are with me, my eyes must gaze on their hostility.
how they kept telling you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following after their own ungodly desires.”
sound speech beyond criticism—so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.
If anyone does not obey our message in this letter, take special note of him and do not associate with him, so that he may be put to shame.
I never sat in the company of revelers nor made merry. Because of Your hand I sat alone, for You filled me with indignation.
so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
They mocked profanely, as if at a feast, they gnashed at me with their teeth.
What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,
Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, and reduce my speech to nothing?”
Bear with me as I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Would it turn out well if He examined you? Could you deceive Him as you deceive a man?
You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless doctors—all of you!
“I have become a laughingstock to my friend, though I called on God and He answered— a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!