Job 17:3

"Lay down, now,. pledge for me with Yourself": Job turns to God Himself, asking Him to lay down. pledge for Job. "This was apparently. custom in which. person, when going to trial, would give. bond or security to the other party as. certainty that no advantage would be taken of him. Here Job was saying that no one would agree to stand up for him as his advocate at his trial (certainly none of his friends would!) God, therefore, who is the Judge, must provide the bond and agree to appear in court" (Zuck p. 79). Notice Job's faith, even though Job thought that God was attacking him, yet he knew that his own only hope was in God.