Job 17

Job · Chapter 17

Job 17:2

1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?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.5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

In context

Who is speaking and to whom, what is happening, when and where, and why it matters, each with its sources. Coming with the context cards.

Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
if?אִם־'im-H0518INo entry
notלֹ֣אlo'H3808
not

לֹא (lo) 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time) Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)

mockeriesהֲ֭תֻלִיםHA-tu-limH2049
mockery

הֲתֻלִֿים (ha.tol) mockery, mocker

[are] with meעִמָּדִ֑י'i-ma-DIH5978
with me

עִמָּדִי (im.mad) with A grammatical form of im (עִם "with" H5973A) § 1) with

and on rebelling theyוּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗םu-ve-ha-me-ro-TAMH4784
to rebel

מָרָה (ma.rah) 1) to be contentious, be rebellious, be refractory, be disobedient towards, be rebellious against 1a) (Qal) to be disobedient, be rebellious 1a1) towards father 1a2) towards God 1b) (Hiphil) to show rebelliousness, show disobedience, disobey

may it dwellתָּלַ֥ןta-LANH3885A
to lodge

לוּן (lun) 1) to lodge, stop over, pass the night, abide 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lodge, pass the night 1a2) to abide, remain (fig.) 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to rest, lodge 1c) (Hithpalpel) to dwell, abide

eye myעֵינִֽי׃'ei-NIH5869A
eye

עַ֫יִן (a.yin) : eye 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.