Job 17:2

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

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.

And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads

And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.