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

² Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

¹⁸ How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk 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 you.

¹⁴ And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

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

¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

¹⁶ With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

⁷ What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

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

³ Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly 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 man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

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

⁴ I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.