Job 17:10
But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
9That the righteous may hold on his way, and, the clean of hands, increase in strength.
11My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!
Cross References
Job 6:29Reply, I pray you, let there be no perversity, Yea reply even yet, my vindication is in it!
Job 15:9What knowest thou, that we know not? [What] understandest thou, and the same, is not with us?
Job 18:3Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?
Job 42:7And it came to pass, after Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.
1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? 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 →