Job 17:2

Job 17:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
• New International Version (NIV)Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

Context of Job 17:2

1“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. Surely there are mockers and mockery with me, And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation. 3“Give me a pledge (guarantee, promise) with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death]; Who is there that will be my guarantor and give security for me? 4But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].

Job 17:2 word by word

אִם־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם תָּלַ֥ן עֵינִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• not mockersהֲתֻלִֿיםhâthôl · mockeryH2049
• with me? and doth not mine eyeעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• continueלוּןlûn lîyn · to lodgeH3885
• in their provocationמָרָהmârâh · to rebelH4784

Cross-references for Job 17:2

• Job 12:4I am a joke to my friends; I, one whom God answered when he called upon Him— A just and blameless man is a joke [and laughed to scorn].
• Job 13:9Will it be well for you when He investigates you [and your tactics against me]? Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?
• Job 16:20My friends are scoffers [who ridicule]; My eye pours out tears to God.
• Job 21:3Bear with me, and I also will speak; And after I have spoken, you may [continue to] mock [me].
• Psalms 35:14I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother; I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.
• Matthew 27:39Those who passed by were hurling abuse at Him and jeering at Him, wagging their heads [in scorn and ridicule],
• Psalms 25:13His soul will dwell in prosperity and goodness, And his descendants will inherit the land.
• Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Will remain secure and rest in the shadow of the Almighty [whose power no enemy can withstand].
• 1 Samuel 1:6Hannah’s rival provoked her bitterly, to irritate and embarrass her, because the Lord had left her childless.

Commentaries on Job 17:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Are there not mockers with me? - This has been variously translated. The Vulgate: "I have not sinned, and yet my eye dwells upon afflictions." Septuagint: "I conjure you, laboring under afflictions, what evil have I done? Yet strangers have robbed me of my substance." Mr. Good: "But are not revilers before me? Alas, mine eye penetrateth their rebukes." Calmet thinks the Hebrew might be translated thus: "If I have not been united in friendship with the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? - Margin “lodge.” This is the meaning of the Hebrew word used here - נלן tālan It properly denotes to pass the night or to lodge in a place, as distinguished from a permanent residence. The idea here seems to be, that his eye “rested” on their provocations. It remained fixed on them. It was not a mere glance, a passing notice, but was such a view as resulted from a careful observation. It was not such…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2mockers surround me: songs of grief (laments) often describe making fun of someone as how evil people respond to the suffering of righteous people (Psalms 22:7; 69:10–12; 89:50–52). In wisdom literature, people make fun of right behavior (Proverbs 1:22; 9:7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. Umbreit, more emphatically, "had I only not to endure mockery, in the midst of their contentions I (mine eye) would remain quiet." eye continue--Hebrew, "tarry all night"; a figure taken from sleep at night, to express undisturbed rest; opposed to (Job 16:20), when the eye of Job is represented as pouring out tears to God without rest.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 17:2

• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Extinct
• Hold
• Mock; Mocker; Mocking

Commentaries on Job 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings