Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Cross-references
Job 12:4 explicitly says 'I am a laughingstock to my friends' — the same complaint of mockers that Job voices in 17:2.
Job 16:20 says 'My friends scorn me' — a near-identical complaint to the mockers mentioned in 17:2, reinforcing Job's isolation.
In Job 11:3, Zophar accuses Job of mocking—contrasting Job's claim of being mocked. A reversal of roles.
Job 21:3 anticipates mockery after he speaks — directly continuing the theme of being mocked, though here Job invites it.
Psalm 35:14-16 describes mockers who gather and tear at the psalmist — a vivid parallel to the provocation Job endures from his mockers.
In Matthew 27:39-44, mockers surround Jesus on the cross, paralleling Job's experience of being surrounded by hostile mockers.
In Luke 8:53, people laugh at Jesus in unbelief, paralleling the mockers Job faces. Both righteous suffer scorn.
In 1 Samuel 1:6, Peninnah provokes Hannah repeatedly, similar to the mockers surrounding Job. Both suffer hostile provocation.