Job 17:3
Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
In Context
2If not—mockeries [are] with me. And my eye lodges in their provocations.
4For You have hidden their heart from understanding, || Therefore You do not exalt them.
Cross References
Genesis 43:9I am guarantor [for] him, from my hand you require him; if I have not brought him to you, and set him before you—then I have sinned against you all the days;
Job 5:1“Pray, call, is there any to answer you? And to which of the holy ones do you turn?
Psalms 119:122Make Your servant sure for good, || Do not let the proud oppress me.
Proverbs 11:15An evil [one] suffers when he has been guarantor [for] a stranger, || And whoever hates striking hands [in agreement] is confident.
Proverbs 20:16When a stranger has been guarantor, take his garment, || And pledge it for strangers.
Isaiah 38:14As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, || I mourn as a dove, || My eyes have been drawn up on high, || O YHWH, oppression [is] on me, be my guarantor.
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 →