Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
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.
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.
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 extinguished, Graves, are left me. 2 Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest. 3 Appoint it, I pray thee - be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6-7
And her rival used even to cause her great vexation, for the sake of provoking her, - because Yahweh had restrained her from having children.
Job 12:4
A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock - a righteous man without blame!
Job 13:9
Would it be well, when he searched you out? Or, as one might jest with a mortal, would ye jest, with him?
Job 16:20
And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: -
Job 21:3
Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!
Psalm 25:13
His soul, with prosperity, shall tarry, and, his seed, shall possess the land.
Psalm 35:14-16
Like as for a friend, like as for a brother of mine own, I walked to and fro, As though mourning for a mother, I gloomily bowed myself down.
Psalm 91:1
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, Under the shadow of the Almighty, will tarry,
Matthew 27:39-44
And, they who were passing by, were reviling him, shaking their heads,