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 on God and whom he answered -- a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

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

I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads

Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, for the Lord had not enabled her to have children.