Job 17:10
But as for you all, return, I pray! I find not yet among you one wise man.
Noyes Bible
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
9The righteous will also hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands will gather strength.
11My days are at an end; My plans are broken off; Even the treasures of my heart.
Cross References
Job 6:29Return, I pray, and let there be no unfairness; Yea, return;—still is my cause righteous.
Job 15:9What dost thou know, that we know not also? What dost thou understand, that is a secret to us?
Job 18:3Why are we accounted as brutes, And reputed vile in your sight?
Job 42:7And when Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken concerning me that which is right, as hath my servant Job.
1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the 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 →