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Job 17:2
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Job 17:2
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
2 Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye †continue in their prouocation?
- Heb. lodge.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 17:2
Vain imitation or effort; that which deceives, disappoints or frustrates.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The organ of sight; also to look upon or observe attentively.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To remain, abide, persist, or endure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
provocation
An act or cause that provokes, incites, angers, or tests patience.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
7And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
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Open the full verse study4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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Open the full verse study20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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Open the full verse study39¶ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
40And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
41Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
42He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
43He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
44The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
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Open the full verse study9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
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Open the full verse study3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
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Open the full verse study13His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
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Open the full verse study14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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Open the full verse study1HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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