Job 17:2

“Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?”

"Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?" - Job 17:2
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What does Job 17:2 mean?

Job 17:2, according to the King James Version of the Bible, reads, "Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?" This verse is part of the book of Job, which is found in the Old Testament. The book of Job is a complex and profound…

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Facing the Mockers: Finding Hope Amidst Doubt

The verse from Job 17:2 in the King James Version profoundly encapsulates a moment of deep emotional turmoil: "Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?" Here, Job is grappling with the weight of despair, feeling isolated and ridiculed…

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A Prayer for Strength Amidst Mockery and Provocation

O Gracious and Unchanging God, As I kneel in the quietness of this moment, I bring before You the weight of my heart, echoing the profound words of Job in Job 17:2, "Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?" In a world where faith is…

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Job 17:2 - "Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?"
Job 42:17 - "So Job died, being old and full of days."
"So Job died, being old and full of days." - Job 42:17
Job 3:17 - "There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest."
Job 17:12 - "They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness."
Job 41:17 - "They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered."
Job 3:2 - "And Job spake, and said,"
Job 8:17 - "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones."
Job 12:17 - "He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools."
Job 20:17 - "He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter."
Job 16:17 - "Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure."
Job 13:17 - "Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears."
Job 17:15 - "And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?"
Job 9:17 - "For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause."
Job 17:1 - "My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me."
Job 29:17 - "And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth."
Job 28:17 - "The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold."
Job 6:17 - "What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place."
Job 31:17 - "Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;"
Job 17:6 - "He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."
Job 17:7 - "Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow."
Job 30:17 - "My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest."
Job 36:17 - "But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee."
Job 17:16 - "They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust."
Job 37:17 - "How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?"
Job 14:17 - "My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity."
Job 27:17 - "He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver."
Job 17:5 - "He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."
Job 24:17 - "For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death."