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

⁶ Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

⁷ [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

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.

²⁰ My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

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

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

¹³ His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.

¹⁴ I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

¹⁵ But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

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

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

³⁹ Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

⁴⁰ and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

⁴¹ Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees,{TR omits "the Pharisees"} and the elders, said,

⁴² "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

⁴³ He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"

⁴⁴ The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.