Job, do you think we can't answer you? That your mocking words will leave us speechless?

People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.

I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.

And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.

Give me a chance to speak and then, when I am through, sneer if you like.

But men younger than I am make fun of me now! Their fathers have always been so worthless that I wouldn't let them help my dogs guard sheep.

All who see me make fun of me; they stick out their tongues and shake their heads.

"You relied on the LORD," they say. "Why doesn't he save you? If the LORD likes you, why doesn't he help you?"

Like those who would mock a cripple, they glared at me with hate.

Then they made a crown out of thorny branches and placed it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand; then they knelt before him and made fun of him. "Long live the King of the Jews!" they said.

Some were mocked and whipped, and others were put in chains and taken off to prison.

My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

When they call to me, I will answer them; when they are in trouble, I will be with them. I will rescue them and honor them.

"Call to me, and I will answer you; I will tell you wonderful and marvelous things that you know nothing about.

But I will watch for the LORD; I will wait confidently for God, who will save me. My God will hear me.

Be honest and you show that you have reverence for the LORD; be dishonest and you show that you do not.

They started making fun of him, so he put them all out, took the child's father and mother and his three disciples, and went into the room where the child was lying.

When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

When they heard Paul speak about a raising from death, some of them made fun of him, but others said, "We want to hear you speak about this again."