Berean Standard Bible
Job 17:2
2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
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 awaits me. Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion. 3Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor? 4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
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אִם־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם תָּלַ֥ן עֵינִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 17:2
- Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
- Job 13:9Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?
- Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
- Job 21:3Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
- Psalms 35:14I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
- Matthew 27:39And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
- Psalms 25:13His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
- Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- 1 Samuel 1:6Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her viciously to taunt her.
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
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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
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