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 joke to my friends,
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and blameless man is a joke.

“Will it be well when He examines you?
Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?

“My friends are my scoffers;

My eye weeps to God.

“Bear with me that I may speak;
Then after I have spoken, you may mock.

I went about as though it were my friend or brother;
I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads

Her rival, however, would provoke her bitterly to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.