What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks evil like water!
“How long will you naïve ones love simplicity, you scoffers delight in scoffing, and you fools hate knowledge?
Adonai will be unwilling to forgive him. For then the anger of Adonai and His jealousy will smoke against that person. So all the oath that is written in this scroll will settle on him, and Adonai will blot out his name from under the heavens.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
“I have become a laughingstock to my friend, though I called on God and He answered— a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
A crooked witness scorns justice, and a wicked mouth devours iniquity.
Will your idle talk silence men and will no one rebuke you when you mock?
But you are full of judgment on the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you!
