3 Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?
Evil `one' suffereth when he hath been surety `for' a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.
As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression `is' on me, be my surety.
by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,
for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee -- then I have sinned against my father all the days.
If there were between us an umpire, He doth place 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,