Job 17:10
Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
In Context
9And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
11My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.
Cross References
Job 6:29Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.
Job 15:9What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?
Job 18:3Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
Job 42:7And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite : My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before my, as my servant Job hath.
1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Matthew Henry on Job 17:2-10
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me… Read the whole commentary →