Job 12:3–4

²What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

³Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

⁴But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

⁵O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

²¹I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

²²Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

⁴Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

⁵For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

²How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

³How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

⁶Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

⁷The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

¹BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

⁶He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

³Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

¹⁵He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

³Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

¹⁰They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

²Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

⁷All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

⁸He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

³²¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

³⁶And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

³Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

²⁰My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

²⁹Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

¹⁴And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

⁴⁰And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.

²⁹¶ And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

⁷Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

²He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

¹⁶With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.