John Trapp on Job 17:2

Verſe 2. Are there not mockers with me?] Heb. If there be not mockers with me, q.d. deſpeream, Let me be puniſhed, or let me be blarned for wiſhing to argue it out with God: ſo ſome Jew-Doctors ſenſe it. job had before complained of his friends jearing and girding at him, chap. 16.20. To be mocked in miſery is no ſmall aggravation thereof. See what is threatned. Prov. 1.26. The Proverb is, Oculus, fides. & fa[illegible: 1 letter]a non patiuntur jocot. There's no jeſting with a mans eye, faith, and fame. Junius readreth the Text thus, For as much as there are no mockings with me, I meane honeſtly, and deal plainly, and yet mine eye continueth in their provocations, neither can I be ſet right in their opinions, ſo prejudiced they are againſt me.

And doth not mine eye continue in their prevoc[illegible: 2 letters]miums?] Heb. Lodg or tarry all night in their provocations, or bitterneſſes? Broughton readeth, In thoſe mans vexing lodgeth mine eye; that is, I lodg not ſo much in roy bed as in the thoughts of my friends un[illegible: 4 letters]neſſe. And indeed (ſaith one) a man may ſleep better upon bare boards, then upon hard words. Some refer it to the eye of his mind lifted up to God in prayer: but yet no ſweetneſſe coming from him either internally or externally. The former is rather to be followed.