³ Should I remain silent while you babble on?
    When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed?

¹⁷ I never joined the people in their merry feasts.
    I sat alone because your hand was on me.
    I was filled with indignation at their sins.

¹⁶ Utterly disgrace them
    until they submit to your name, O Lord.

¹⁶ They mock me and call me names;
    they snarl at me.

⁷ “Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job,
    with his thirst for irreverent talk?

²⁵ Can anyone claim otherwise?
    Who can prove me wrong?”