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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 17:3

RV 'Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?' Job begs that God will promise to testify to his innocence after he is dead. There is no one else who will do this. To 'strike hands' was the Hebrew sign of becoming surety for another.

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See also Job 17:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 17:3. _LAY DOWN NOW_] Deposit a pledge; stake your conduct against mine, and your life and soul on the issue; let the cause come before God, let him try it; and see whether any of you shall...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LAY DOWN NOW - This is evidently an address to God - a repetition of the wish which he had so often expressed, that he might be permitted to bring his cause directly before him; see Job 13:3. The whol...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LAY DOWN NOW. Appoint it so,. pray. PUT ME, &C.. be thou my bond. Compare Isaiah 38:14 ("undertake"). WHO IS HE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. The answer is given in Job 17:4 by Figure of...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    New appeal to God that He would undertake for Job or give him a pledge that he would cause his innocence to be acknowledged by God, Job 17:3; with the grounds for this prayer as before, Job 17:4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse reads, Give a pledge now! be surety for me with thee! Who is there (else) that will strike hands with me? _Lay down now_ i. e. lay or put in a pledge. _Now_is not temporal, but a particle...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a pledge that He will make his innocence appear In Job 16:12 Jo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _LAY DOWN NOW, PUT ME IN A SURETY WITH THEE; WHO IS HE THAT WILL STRIKE HANDS WITH ME?_ Lay down - namely, a pledge or security - i:e., be my surety; do thou attest my innocence, since my friends onl...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job’s friends could not help Job. And Job thought that God was attacking him (Job 16:9-14). But Job still respected God. And Job still trusted God. So Job asked God for help (Job 16:19-21). In fact,...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LAY DOWN NOW... — _i.e., Give now a pledge; be surety for me with Thyself._ He has declared that he has a witness in the heavens, but he desires some _present_ token of the vindication to come of whic...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שִֽׂימָה ־נָּ֭א עָרְבֵ֣נִי עִמָּ֑ךְ מִֽי ה֝֗וּא...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (c) Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] (d) will strike hands with me? (c) He reasons with God as a man beside himself, so that his cause might be brought to light. (d) An...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fight. I am secure under thy protection. Hebrew, "who will strike hands with me?" or stand bondsman for my debt? (Proverbs vi. 1.) Who will take my place? You accuse me of weakness and of impiety: bu...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. (2) Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? (3) Lay down now, put me in a sur...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LAY DOWN NOW,.... A pledge that thou wilt provide a surety, appoint and admit one to plead for me, and that thou wilt hear my cause, and determine it; or "put now", or "put, I pray thee" r, thy heart...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me? Ver. 3. _Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee_] This Job speaketh not to Eliphaz (as R. Moses, Beza, an...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Lay down now_ Some earnest or pledge. _Put me in a surety with thee_ Let me have an assurance that God will take the hearing and determining of the cause into his own hands, and I desire no more. _Wh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Lay down now, Job pleads with God to furnish him a pledge, or security, to bind Himself as surety; PUT ME IN A SURETY WITH THEE, He Himself being bondsman for Job before the tribunal of divine justice...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS WEAKNESS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He turneth his speech either to Eliphaz, who spoke last; or rather to God, as is evident from the matter and scope of the words, and from the next verse. These words contain either, 1. A humble desire...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 17:3 down H7760 (H8798) pledge H6148 (H8798) shake H8628 (H8735) hands H3027 put me -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 43:9; Genesis 44:32; Hebrews 7:22; Job 9:33; Proverbs 11:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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;...

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