Job 19:18

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

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.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’

The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”—

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.