Job 17:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continueb in their provocation? ”

• Job 17:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? - Margin “lodge.” This is the meaning of the Hebrew word used here - נלן tālan . It properly denotes to pass the night or to lodge in a pl...

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• Job 17:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  [Are there] not (a) mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in (b) their provocation? (a) Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged h...

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• Job 17:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 16:22 to Job 17:16 . Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. Job 17:2 is obscure; the general sense...

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• Job 17:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  continue in . constantly dwell on.

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• Job 17:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 17:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Are there not mockers with me?— Were it not so, I have sarcasms enough in store, and I could spend the whole night unmoved at their aggravations. Heath. See chap. Job 24:25 . It is very plain to...

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• Job 17:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? Umbreit, more emphatically, 'had I only not to endure mockery (literally, if only there were not mockings wit...

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• Job 17:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Fourth Speech (concluded) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the...

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• Job 17:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Mine eye continue in their provocation? — “It sees, and can see nothing else; has nothing else to look upon “: a bitter reproach against his friends.

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• Job 17:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...

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• Job 17:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...

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• Job 17:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterabl...

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• Job 17:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ 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 su...

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• Job 17:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  [Are there] not mockers with me ?.... Meaning not irreligious persons, such as make a mock at sin, a jest of religion, a laugh at good men, sneer at the doctrines and ordinances of God, and scoff at...

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• Job 17:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Job 17:2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? Ver. 2. Are there no mockers with me? ] Heb. If there be not mockers with me, q.d. despeream, l...

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• Job 17:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Are there not mockers with me? Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock and abuse me, as if I had made use of religion only as a cloak to cover my wickedness? Thus he returns to what he had s...

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• Job 17:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...

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• Job 17:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520.       1 My breath...

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• Job 17:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock and abuse me, as if I had made use of religion only as a cloak to my wickedness? Heb. If there be not mockers with me , understand, let God do so or so...

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• Job 17:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Bemoans his dying condition ( Job 17:1 ). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished,...

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• Job 17:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye we...

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• Job 17:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...

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• Job 17:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of his Weakness

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• Job 17:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 1:6 ; 1 Samuel 1:7 ; Job 12:4 ; Job 13:9 ; Job 16:20 ; Job 21:3 ; Matthew 27:39-44 ; Psalms 25:13 ; Psalms 35:14-16 ; Psalms 91:1

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• Job 17:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Are not — Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock me? Thus he returns to what he had said, Job 16:20 , and intimates the justice of his following appeal.

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