2 Peter 2:8
Good News Translation
That good man lived among them, and day after day he suffered agony as he saw and heard their evil actions.

New Revised Standard Version
(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard),

New American Bible
(for day after day that righteous man living among them was tormented in his righteous soul at the lawless deeds that he saw and heard),

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.

that.

Proverbs 25:26 A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot and a corrupted spring.

Proverbs 28:12 In the joy of the just there is great glory: when the wicked reign, men are ruined.

1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

James 5:16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

in seeing.

Psalm 119:136,139,158 My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law. . . .

Ezekiel 9:4,6 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof. . . .

Malachi 3:15-17 Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved. . . .

Context
Deliverance from False Prophets
7And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked: 8For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works. 9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:…
Cross References
Genesis 13:13
And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.

2 Peter 2:7
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