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

1I am very weak and I will soon die. Then my friends will bury me in my grave. All around me, people are laughing at me. I have to watch them as they insult me. 3God, please help me to become free again. Nobody else will pay the price to do that for me. 4You have stopped my friends from thinking properly. So do not allow them to win the argument.

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 person who prayed to God and he answered me. But my friends now laugh at me. I have always lived completely in the right way. But still my friends laugh at me.
• Job 13:9If God asks you questions, would he find that you speak the truth? Or would you try to deceive him, as you deceive other people?
• Job 16:20My friends have turned against me. I cry with many tears as I pray to God.
• Job 21:3Be patient with me so that I can speak. After you have heard what I say, you may choose to laugh at me.
• Psalms 35:14I wept as I prayed, as I would weep when a friend or my mother had died.
• Matthew 27:39The people who walked near there insulted Jesus. They laughed at him,
• Psalms 25:13People like that will enjoy a good life. The land will belong to their descendants.
• Psalms 91:1If anyone lives in Almighty God's safe place, the Most High God protects that person.
• 1 Samuel 1:6Peninnah was not kind to Hannah and she made Hannah very upset. She did this because the Lord had not let Hannah give birth to any children.

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