"I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn."
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Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
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!
And 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.
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
But 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.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
I am as one mocked by his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is derided.
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter `is' the perfect righteous one.