3 Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.
Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.
I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.
For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.
A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.
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Commentary on Job 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
In this chapter,
His friends becoming strange to him, which greatly grieved him, he makes death and the grave familiar to him, which yielded him some comfort.
Job 17:1-9
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:-
Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,