Job 17:3 ASV — MannaFest

Job 17:3

Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

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KJV

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

WEB

Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

YLT

Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?

DBT

Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?

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A presage of the "surety" (Heb 7:22), or "one Mediator between God and man" (see on Job 16:21). strike hands--"who else (save God Himself) could strike hands with me?" that is, be my security (Ps 119:122). The Hebrew strikes the hand of him for whom he goes security (Pr 6:1).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Surety - These words contain, an humble desire to God that he would be his surety, or appoint him a surety who should maintain his righteous cause against his opposers. Strike hands - Be surety to me; whereof that was the usual gesture.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Cross-references

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The verses this one reaches12

Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Proverbs 6:1
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;
Hebrews 7:22
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
Proverbs 11:15
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; But he that hateth suretyship is secure.
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:
Genesis 44:32
For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.
Psalms 119:122
Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.
Job 31:35
Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me) And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
Proverbs 22:26
Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.
Job 9:33
There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.
Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.
Proverbs 6:11
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

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About this book

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. Both are surfaced.

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The whole remaining floor, clustered by book in canonical order. The first references in each book travel with their words; the rest are one click from theirs.

Proverbs1

Proverbs 17:18A man void of understanding striketh hands, And becometh surety in the presence of…

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; OpenBible.info (CC-BY).

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page, and every stop travels with its words.

Through
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
leads to
- Isaiah 59:11
  We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Psalms 69:3
  I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Job 30:29
  I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
- Psalms 123:1–4
  Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens.
- Nahum 2:7
  And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.
Through
Hebrews 7:22
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 11:25
  In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
- Hebrews 8:6–12
  But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
- Hebrews 12:24
  and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.

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