³ Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

² Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

¹⁸ That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

⁸ sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

¹⁴ And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

¹⁷ I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.

¹⁶ Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.

¹⁶ Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

⁷ What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,

²⁵ And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?

³ Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.

² Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?

⁴ But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

⁴ I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.