Job 17:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?

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  • 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her fret, because the LORD had closed her womb. 7 And so he did year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore Hannah wept and did not eat.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am like one mocked by his neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Allow me to speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
  • Ps 25:13 : 13 His soul shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth.
  • Ps 35:14-16 : 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother. 15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 He who dwells 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 reviled him, shaking their heads, 40 And saying, You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. 43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 The thieves also, who were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
  • Job 13:9 : 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?

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  • 3Put down now, give me a pledge with You; who is he that will strike hands with me?

  • 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • 20My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

    16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • Jer 15:17-18
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    17I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.

    18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

  • Job 17:6-7
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    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

    7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

  • 7All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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    7My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

  • Job 16:8-10
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    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • 8My enemies reproach me all day long; those who are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • 3Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

  • Job 21:3-4
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    3Allow me to speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

    4As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • 19Let not my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

  • 12Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

  • 3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 14I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

  • 19How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

  • 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • 9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?

  • 9From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

  • 15Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • 17You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

  • 4I am like one mocked by his neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

  • 21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

  • 16My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • 4Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • 3Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention.

  • 5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

  • 1But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

  • 20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

  • Job 19:2-3
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    2How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

    3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.

  • 24Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • 9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

  • 19Give heed to me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

  • 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

  • 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

  • 7O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.

  • 16For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.

  • 21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

  • 10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

  • 12Am I a sea, or a monster, that you set a watch over me?

  • 3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • 15O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.