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Job 17:2 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 17:2Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 17:27 words
HebrewMeaning
אִםʾim
?conjH518
can- · doubtless · if · that) ···
לֹ֣אlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
הֲ֭תֻלִיםhătuliym
mockeriesnounH2049
עִמָּדִ֑/יʿimādiy
are with mepronH5978
by · from · me · mine ···
וּ֝/בְ/הַמְּרוֹתָ֗/םwbəhamərwōtām
and on rebelling theyconjH4784
change · be disobedient · disobey · grievously ···
תָּלַ֥ןtālan
may it dwellverbH3885
continue · dwell · endure · grudge ···
עֵינִֽ/יʿēyniy
eye mynounH5869
outward appearance · before · think best · colour ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 13 §31
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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