English Standard Version
Job 17:2
2Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
- New Living Translation (NLT)I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
Context of Job 17:2
1"My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. 3"Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me? 4Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
Read all of Job 17Job 17:2 word by word
אִם־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם תָּלַ֥ן עֵינִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 17:2
- Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
- Job 13:9Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
- Job 16:20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
- Job 21:3Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
- Psalms 35:14I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
- Matthew 27:39And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads
- Psalms 25:13His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall 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 1:6And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
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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