Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You
and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say ab
If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughing