" Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what [may!]

"Give ear, Job, listen to me; Hold your peace, and I will speak.

If not, listen to me; Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom."

"I am one mocked by his friends, Who called on God, and He answered him, The just and blameless [who is] ridiculed.

A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease; [It is] made ready for those whose feet slip.

Will it be well when He searches you out? Or can you mock Him as one mocks a man?

They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me.

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

[Are] not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?