Job 17:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children; 7 And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.
  • Ps 25:13 : 13 His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.
  • Ps 35:14-16 : 14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead. 15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me. 16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
  • Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying, 40 You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said, 42 A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him. 43 He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.
  • Job 13:9 : 9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

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    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

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  • Ps 22:7
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    7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

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    7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

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    8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

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    3 Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

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    19 Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

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    12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

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    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

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  • Job 19:5
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    9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

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