Job 17:10
But please return and come in, all of you, || And I do not find a wise man among you.
Literal Standard Version
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 righteous lays hold [on] his way, || And the clean of hands adds strength.
11My days have passed by, || My plans have been broken off, || The possessions of my heart!
Cross References
Job 6:29Please turn back, let it not be perverseness, || Indeed, turn back again—my righteousness [is] in it.
Job 15:9What have you known, and we do not know? [What] do you understand, and it is not with us?
Job 18:3Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Job 42:7And it comes to pass after YHWH’s speaking these words to Job, that YHWH says to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger has burned against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken correctly concerning Me, like My servant Job.
1 Corinthians 1:20where [is] the wise? Where the scribe? Where a disputer of this age? Did God not make 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 →