Bible verse
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
Job 17:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 17.
1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
KJV
[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
ASV
Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
ERV
Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
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