⁷What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

⁹For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

¹⁷Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

¹⁸Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

¹⁹How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

³³Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

²³Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

²Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

⁶There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

¹¹He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

³The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

⁴Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

⁶Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

³My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

⁷Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

⁵They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

¹¹And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

¹⁹Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

²⁰Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

²¹Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

⁷Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

⁸Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

²⁴Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

²⁵But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

¹²Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

³⁴Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

¹²If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.