Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Froward men are with me, and mine eye must continue in the bitterness of them.
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.
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 breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door. 2 Froward men are with me, and mine eye must continue in the bitterness of them. 3 O deliver me and set me by thee: who shall then be able to thrust my hands together?
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6-7
And thereto her enemy Peninnah vexed her a good in casting her in the teeth how the LORD had made her barren.
Job 12:4
Thus, he that calleth upon God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neighbour; the godly and innocent man is laughed to scorn.
Job 13:9
Shall that help you, when he calleth you to reckoning? Think ye to beguile him, as a man is beguiled?
Job 16:20
My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job 21:3
Suffer me a little, that I may speak also, and then laugh my words to scorn, if ye will.
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 went heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalm 91:1
Whoso dwelleth under the defense of the most high, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Matthew 27:39-44
They that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads