Job 17:2 Meaning and Explanation
“Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Job 17:2 Mean?
Job names the bitterness of his situation: those who should comfort him have become mockers, and their provocation is constantly before his eyes. The friends who came to console him have wounded him instead.
To suffer is hard; to suffer while being misjudged is harder still. Job's pain reminds us how heavy careless words can be, and it calls us to be the kind of companions who weep with those who weep. Christ Himself was surrounded by mockery in His darkest hour, so the righteous sufferer is never truly alone in that grief.
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What does Job 17:2 mean?
Job is surrounded by mockery and cannot look away from the scorn aimed at him.