Job 17:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

Job 17:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Hebrews 7:22
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Proverbs 11:15
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Psalms 119:122
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Genesis 43:9
I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Job’s discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:— I. The deplorable condition which poor Job was now in, which he describes, to aggravate the great unkindness of his friends to him and to justify his own complaints. Let us see what his case was. 1. He was a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. Lay down now--namely, a pledge or security; that is, be my surety; do Thou attest my innocence, since my friends only mock me (Job 17:2). Both litigating parties had to lay down a sum as security before the trial. put me in a surety--Provide a surety for me (in the trial) with Thee. A presage of the “surety” (He 7:22), or “one Mediator between God and man” (see on Job 16:21). strike hands--“who…