Job 17:2

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

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

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

My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God

Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

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

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,

And her rival provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because LORD had shut up her womb.