Job 17:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 17

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²Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Job 17:2 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
1 Samuel 1:6-7
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. …
Matthew 27:39-44
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, …
Psalms 25:13
His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom Persecution Suffering

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Job’s discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:— I. The deplorable condition which poor Job was now in, which he describes, to aggravate the great unkindness of his friends to him and to justify his own complaints. Let us see what his case was. 1. He was a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. Umbreit, more emphatically, “had I only not to endure mockery, in the midst of their contentions I (mine eye) would remain quiet.” eye continue--Hebrew, “tarry all night”; a figure taken from sleep at night, to express undisturbed rest; opposed to (Job 16:20), when the eye of Job is represented as pouring out tears to God without rest.