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

1My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me. Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion. 3Accept my pledge! Put up security for me. Who else will be my sponsor? 4You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not honor them.

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 laughingstock to my friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.
• Job 13:9Would it go well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you would deceive a man?
• Job 16:20My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.
• Job 21:3Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.
• Psalms 35:14I went about mourning as if for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for a mother.
• Matthew 27:39Those who passed by were yelling insults at him, shaking their heads
• Psalms 25:13He will live a good life, and his descendants will inherit the land.
• Psalms 91:1The one who lives under the protection of the Most High dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.
• 1 Samuel 1:6Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

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