Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on 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.
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?
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 pulled down; my days are extinguished; [the] graveyard [is] for me. 2 {Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation. 3 Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who [is] he [who] will give security for my hand?
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6-7
(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)
Job 12:4
I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.
Job 13:9
[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?
Job 16:20
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Job 21:3
Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.
Psalm 25:13
His soul will lodge in prosperity, and his offspring will possess [the] land.
Psalm 35:14-16
I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.
Psalm 91:1
[One who] lives in the secret place of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai.
Matthew 27:39-44
And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads