Job 17:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? ”

• Job 17:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 . T...

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• Job 17:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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) A...

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• Job 17:3 - 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...

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• Job 17:3 - 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...

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• Job 17:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? Lay down now - Deposit a pledge; stake your conduct against mine, and your life and soul on the issue; let th...

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• Job 17:3 - 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 frien...

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• Job 17:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Fourth Speech (concluded) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the...

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• Job 17:3 - 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 w...

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• Job 17:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...

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• Job 17:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...

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• Job 17:3 - 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 unutterabl...

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• Job 17:3 - 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 su...

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• Job 17:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 hea...

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• Job 17:3 - 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,...

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• Job 17:3 - 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. W...

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• Job 17:3 - L. 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...

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• Job 17:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520.       1 My breath...

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• Job 17:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 des...

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• Job 17:3 - 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,...

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• Job 17:3 - 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 we...

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• Job 17:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...

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• Job 17:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of his Weakness

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• Job 17:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 43:9 ; Genesis 44:32 ; Hebrews 7:22 ; Job 9:33 ; Proverbs 11:15 ; Proverbs 17:18 ; Proverbs 20:16 ; Proverbs 22:26 ; Proverbs 6:11

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• Job 17:3 - 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...

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