Job 17:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Are there not mockers with me? And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Surely there are mockers and mockery around me, and my eye dwells on their obstinacy, insults, and resistance.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

Common English Bible

² Surely mockers are with me, and my eye looks on their rebellion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² I have not sinned, yet my eye remains in bitterness.

Job 17:2 Cross References

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

Psalm 91:1

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

Psalm 25:13

He himself shall abide in prosperity, and his children shall possess the land.

Job 21:3

Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

Job 13:9

Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

Job 11:3

Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

Job 17:6

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

Job 27:12

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?