Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

New American Standard Bible

Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Surely mockers surround me
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.

A Conservative Version

Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells 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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
התל 
Hathol 
Usage: 1

with me and doth not mine eye
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

לין לוּן 
Luwn 
Usage: 84

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 mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation. 3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

Cross References

1 Samuel 1:6-7

And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

Job 12:4

I am as one that 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 one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?

Job 16:20

My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

Job 21:3

Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that 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 one that bewaileth his mother.

Psalm 91:1

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Matthew 27:39-44

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,

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