Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
New American Standard Bible
And my eye
King James Version
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Holman Bible
and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
International Standard Version
Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.
American Standard Version
Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Amplified
“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,
And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.
Darby Translation
Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation?
Julia Smith Translation
If not mockings with me? and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness?
King James 2000
Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation.
Modern King James verseion
Are not mockeries with me? Yea, my eye rests on their insults.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Froward men are with me, and mine eye must continue in the bitterness of them.
NET Bible
Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
New Heart English Bible
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
The Emphasized Bible
Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
Webster
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
World English Bible
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
Youngs Literal Translation
If not -- mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 17:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech, Continued
1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me. 2 Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation. 3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6-7
And her rival provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because LORD had shut up her womb.
Job 12:4
I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
Job 16:20
My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God
Job 21:3
Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Psalm 25:13
His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the land.
Psalm 35:14-16
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who bewails his mother.
Psalm 91:1
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Matthew 27:39-44
And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,