Job 21:3

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

They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.

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

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?

Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Mark well, O Job, hearken to me. Keep silent, and I will speak.

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Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Mark well, O Job, hearken to me. Keep silent, and I will speak.

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?

They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.