Job 17:2
Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
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- 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 Her rival used to aggravate her to the point of exasperation, just to irritate her, since the LORD had not enabled her to have children. 7 This is how it would go year after year. As often as she went up to the LORD’s house, Peninnah would offend her that way.) So she cried and refused to eat.
- Job 12:4 : 4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered– a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
- Job 16:20 : 20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
- Job 21:3 : 3 Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
- Ps 25:13 : 13 They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.
- Ps 35:14-16 : 14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother. 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest. 16 When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.
- Ps 91:1 : 1 As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, and resides in the protective shadow of the Sovereign One–
- Matt 27:39-44 : 39 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads 40 and saying,“You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!” 41 In the same way even the chief priests– together with the experts in the law and elders– were mocking him: 42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him! 43 He trusts in God– let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said,‘I am God’s Son’!” 44 The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.
- Job 13:9 : 9 Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
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