| Job 17:2 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Certainly, mockers are around me. My eyes are focused on their opposition.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? |
| ASV: | Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation. |
| BBE: | Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing. |
| DBY: | Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation? |
| ERV: | Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation. |
| JPS: | Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation. |
| WBS: | Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? |
| WEB: | Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation. |
| YLT: | If not -- mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth. |
| Job 17:2 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 12:4 "I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
Job 17:6 "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 17:2 [Are there] not {a} mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in {b} their provocation?
(a) Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him. |
| WES: | 17:2 Are not - Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock me? Thus he returns to what he had said, chap.16:20, and intimates the justice of his following appeal. |
| MHC: | 17:1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of time, and to spend them in getting ready for eternity. We see the good use the righteous should make of Job's afflictions from God, from enemies, and from friends. Instead of being discouraged in the service of God, by the hard usage this faithful servant of God met with, they should be made bold to proceed and persevere therein. Those who keep their eye upon heaven as their end, will keep their feet in the paths of religion as their way, whatever difficulties and discouragements they may meet with. |
| CONC: | Abide Abideth Bitter Continue Dark Dwell Dwelleth Dwells Eye Gazes Hostility Laughing Lodgeth Mockeries Mockers Provocation Provocations Round Sport Surely Surround Truly |
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