Job 21:3

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

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.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

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.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

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

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

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

Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.