Job 11:3
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? {lies: or, devices}
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{Are there} not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? {continue: Heb. lodge}
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
But ye {are} forgers of lies, ye {are} all physicians of no value.
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye {so} mock him?
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
I am {as} one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright {man is} laughed to scorn.
What man {is} like Job, {who} drinketh up scorning like water?
And if {it be} not {so} now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? {vain...: Heb. knowledge of wind}
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. {by...: or, signify that man by an epistle}
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, {and} weary themselves to commit iniquity. {deceive: or, mock}
I am {as} one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright {man is} laughed to scorn.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for {it is} evident unto you if I lie. {evident...: Heb. before your face}
And be it indeed {that} I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed {that} ye make yourselves strange to me. {make...: or, harden yourselves against me}