Job 17:3
Good News Translation
I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.

New Revised Standard Version
“Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there that will give surety for me?

Contemporary English Version
If you, LORD, don't help, who will pay the price for my release?

New American Bible
Put up a pledge for me with you: who is there to give surety for me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.

put me

Job 9:33 There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.

Genesis 43:9 I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.

Genesis 44:32 Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.

Proverbs 11:15 A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have riches.

Proverbs 20:16 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Hebrews 7:22 By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

strike

Proverbs 6:11 A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 11:15 A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have riches.

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Proverbs 17:18 A foolish man will clap hands, when he is surety for his friend.

Proverbs 22:26 Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

Context
Job Prepares for Death
2I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness. 3Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.4Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:122
Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

Isaiah 38:14
I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

Job 17:2
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