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: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.

[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?

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

Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.

I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads

(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)