Job 17:2
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
BSB
ASV
Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
KJV
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Are there not mockers with me? - This has been variously translated. The Vulgate: “I have not sinned, and yet my eye dwells upon afflictions.” Septuagint: “I conjure you, laboring under afflictions, what evil have I done? Yet strangers have robbed me of my substance.” Mr. Good: “But are not revilers before me?
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
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During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
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Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
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“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.