Revised Version 1895
Job 17:2
2Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in 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.
- 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 consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation. 3Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me? 4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou 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 as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and he answered him: the just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
- Job 13:9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
- Job 16:20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God;
- Job 21:3Suffer me, and I also will speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
- Psalms 35:14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
- Matthew 27:39And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,
- Psalms 25:13His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the land.
- Psalms 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
- 1 Samuel 1:6And her rival provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up 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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