Job 17:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם תָּלַ֥ן עֵינִֽי׃

Transliteration

if-not hăṯulîm with-me û-ḇəhammərôṯām tālan ʿênî

Grammar Details

*hăṯulîm*: noun, masculine plural - mockers/mockeries
*û-ḇəhammərôṯām*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine plural construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and in their provocations/rebellions
*tālan*: Qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - it lodges/stays/dwells
*ʿênî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my eye

Word Meanings

*hăṯulîm*: mockers/mockeries/deceits/illusions
*û-ḇəhammərôṯām*: and in their provocations/rebellions/bitterness
*tālan*: lodges/stays/dwells/abides
*ʿênî*: my eye/sight (metaphorically: my attention/focus)

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb. 7 And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
Job 12:4 : 4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Job 21:3 : 3 Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
Ps 25:13 : 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; And his seed shall inherit the land.
Ps 35:14-16 : 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not: 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Ps 91:1 : 1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, 40 and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 In like manner also the chief priests mocking [him], with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him. 43 He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 And the robbers also that were crucified with him cast upon him the same reproach.
Job 13:9 : 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?

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