Job 17:2
Yet truly those that mock are with me, and on their offendings must my eye rest.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
In Context
1My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave is ready for me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6And her rival also provoked her continually, in order to make her fret; because the Lord had shut up her womb.
Job 13:9Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one overreacheth another mortal, do ye expect to overreach him?
Job 21:3Bear with me that I may indeed speak: and after my speaking, then canst thou mock.
Psalms 25:13His soul shall abide in happiness: and his seed shall inherit the land.
Psalms 91:1He who sitteth under the secret protection of the Most High, shall rest under the shadow of the Almighty.
Matthew Henry on Job 17:2-10
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me… Read the whole commentary →