3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, But he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me.
Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.
By so much has Jesus become the collateral of a better covenant.
For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'
There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on us both.
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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,