Job 17:2

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.

Related Commentaries of 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 prop...
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...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

continue in . constantly dwell on.
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 transl...
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....
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 mocke...
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, an...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job rejects the delusive hopes of restoration held out by the friends.
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...
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 onl...
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...
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 t...
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...
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 t...
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 cov...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520....
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...
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 de...
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 r...
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 occupi...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of his Weakness
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Are there not mockers with me? or, "truly, mockery surrounds me," namely, in the persons of these false friends. And doth not mine eye continue in t...
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...
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 fol...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 17:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 17:2