Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
If not mockings with me? and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness?
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?
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 being destroyed my days were extinct; the graves are for me. 2 If not mockings with me? and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness? 3 Set up now, pledge me with thee: who is he will strike for my hand?
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6-7
Being grieved, her distress grieved her so that she was moved because Jehovah shut up about her womb
Job 12:4
I shall be he laughing at his neighbor, calling to God, and he will answer him: the just blameless one being laughed at
Job 13:9
Is it good that he shall search you out?, or as he mocking against a man; will ye mock against him?
Job 16:20
My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.
Job 21:3
Suffer me and I will speak; and after my word ye will mock
Psalm 25:13
His soul shall lodge in good, and his seed shall inherit the earth.
Psalm 35:14-16
As a friend, as a brother to me: I went about as mourning a mother: being darkened, I bowed down.
Psalm 91:1
He dwelling in the covering of the Most High, in the shadow of the Almighty shall he lodge.
Matthew 27:39-44
And they coming near, blasphemed him, shaking their heads,