“Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?”
"Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation." Job's consciousness is consumed by the mocking of those around him. His attention is fixed on their hostility. The verse suggests that the mocking is not merely an external irritant but has become the content of his inner life. He inhabits their provocation.
Church Fathers on Job 17:2
My spirit shall be wasted to thinness. ‘My spirit is wasted to thinness,’ by the fear of judgment; in that the minds of the Elect, the more they feel themselves to be approaching the final Judgment, tremble so much the more fearfully in the searching of their own selves; and if they ever find in themselves any carnal thoughts, they consume them by the fervour of their penance; nor do they suffer their thoughts to expand with carnal delight, in that they pass sentence and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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