Verse 2

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. 7 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
• Job 12:4 : 4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
• Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
• Job 21:3 : 3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
• Ps 25:13 : 13 His soul shall dwell at ease. 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 who mourns his mother. 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease. 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
• Ps 91:1 : 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
• Matt 27:39-44 : 39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging 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 the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said, 42 "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" 44 The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
• Job 13:9 : 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?