³ Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

² Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.

¹⁸ They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

⁸ and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

¹⁴ If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

¹⁷ I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.

¹⁶ Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.

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

⁷ What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,

²⁵ If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?"

³ Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

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

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

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

⁴ But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

⁴ I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.