Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 17:2
[Are there] not (a) mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in (b) their provocation?
(a) Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him.
[Are there] not (a) mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in (b) their provocation?
(a) Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him.
Verse Job 17:2. ARE THERE _NOT MOCKERS WITH ME?_] This has been variously translated. The VULGATE: "I have not sinned, and yet my eye dwells upon afflictions." SEPTUAGINT: "I conjure you, labouring u...
AND DOTH NOT MINE EYE CONTINUE IN THEIR PROVOCATION? - Margin “lodge.” This is the meaning of the Hebrew word used here - נלן _tālan_. It properly denotes to pass the night or to lodge in a place, as...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
CONTINUE IN. constantly dwell on....
_Are there not mockers with me_ lit. _mockery_. The interrogative form is possible, but more likely the verse is a strong asseveration, uttered in a tone of indignant impatience. The connexion indicat...
Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a pledge that He will make his innocence appear In Job 16:12 Jo...
What Job sought with tears was that God would cause his innocence to be acknowledged by God, and made manifest against men. Now he adds words in support of his prayer, or gives the reason for it. He s...
ARE THERE NOT MOCKERS WITH ME?— _Were it not so, I have sarcasms enough in store, and I could spend the whole night unmoved at their aggravations._ Heath. See chap. Job 24:25. It is very plain to me,...
4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...
_ARE THERE NOT MOCKERS WITH ME? AND DOTH NOT MINE EYE CONTINUE IN THEIR PROVOCATION?_ Umbreit, more emphatically, 'had I only not to endure mockery (literally, if only there were not mockings with me)...
Job rejects the delusive hopes of restoration held out by the friends....
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the pre...
Job thought that he was dying. His friends were with him. But they did not speak kind words to him. Instead, they accused him of many evil deeds. JOB PRAYS V3 God, promise to be fair to me! Nobody...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
MINE EYE CONTINUE IN THEIR PROVOCATION? — “It sees, and can see nothing else; has nothing else to look upon “: a bitter reproach against his friends....
אִם ־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝ בְ הַמְּרֹו
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
“THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
_Not sinned. That is, I am not guilty of such sins as they charge me with. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "the wicked were not with me" in friendship at any time. Protestants, " Are there not mockers with me...
(1) В¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. (2) Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? (3) Lay down now, put me in a sur...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
[ARE THERE] NOT MOCKERS WITH ME?.... Meaning not irreligious persons, such as make a mock at sin, a jest of religion, a laugh at good men, sneer at the doctrines and ordinances of God, and scoff at th...
Job 17:2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? Ver. 2. _Are there no mockers with me?_] Heb. If there be not mockers with me, _q.d._ _despeream,_ let m...
_Are there not mockers with me?_ Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock and abuse me, as if I had made use of religion only as a cloak to cover my wickedness? Thus he returns to what he had sa...
Are there not mockers with me? or, "truly, mockery surrounds me," namely, in the persons of these false friends. AND DOTH NOT MINE EYE CONTINUE IN THEIR PROVOCATION? The eyes of Job were obliged to re...
JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS WEAKNESS...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
CONTINUE: _ Heb._ lodge...
Yet only mockery surrounded him, through his tear-filled eyes he only sees his friends attacking him and viewing him as some terrible sinner....
1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of...
Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock and abuse me, as if I had made use of religion only as a cloak to my wickedness? Heb. _If there be not mockers with me_, understand, let God do so or so...
Job 17:2 mockers H2049 eye H5869 dwell H3885 (H8799) provocation H4784 (H8687) mockers - Job 12:4,...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...
EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
1 Samuel 1:6; 1 Samuel 1:7; Job 12:4; Job 13:9; Job 16:20;...
Are not — Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock me? Thus he returns to what he had said, Job 16:20, and intimates the justice of his following appeal....