“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 17:3 in context
Job 17:1–6
1
“My spirit is consumed.
My days are extinct
and the grave is ready for me.
2
Surely there are mockers with me.
My eye dwells on their provocation.
3
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“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.
5
He who denounces his friends for plunder,
even the eyes of his children will fail.
6
“But he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.
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