Job 17:2 · KJV
“{Are there} not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? {continue: Heb. lodge}”
— Job 17:2
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who {is} he {that} will strike hands with me?
Job 17 — Context
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}
2{Are there} not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? {continue: Heb. lodge}
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who {is} he {that} will strike hands with me?
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt {them}.
Cross References
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. {provoked: Heb. angered}
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. {scorn me: Heb. are my scorners}
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. {dwell...: Heb. lodge in goodness}
Psalms 91:1
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. {abide: Heb. lodge}
Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye {so} mock him?