Parallel Verses
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.
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.
A Conservative Version
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
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.
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 broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me. 2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing. 3 Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6-7
And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;
Job 12:4
It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
Job 13:9
Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?
Job 16:20
My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
Job 21:3
Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.
Psalm 25:13
His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.
Psalm 35:14-16
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
Psalm 91:1
Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
Matthew 27:39-44
And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying,