Job 17:3

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Put me in your pledge, O God; who else will strike hands with me in agreement?

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  • Prov 11:15 : 15 Whoever puts up security for a stranger will suffer harm, but whoever hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a garment as security from one who guarantees a stranger's debt; hold it in pledge if it is for a foreign woman.
  • Ps 119:122 : 122 Be surety for Your servant for good; do not let the proud oppress me.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 I chirp like a swift or a crane, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look to the heavens. Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.
  • Prov 6:11 : 11 and poverty will come upon you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I will be a guarantee for him; you can hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
  • Gen 44:32 : 32 For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'
  • Job 9:33 : 33 There is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
  • Prov 22:26 : 26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge, or who puts up security for debts.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge with a stranger,

  • 18A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.

  • 2Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.

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    26Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge, or who puts up security for debts.

    27If you lack the means to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

  • 13Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an outsider.

  • 16Take a garment as security from one who guarantees a stranger's debt; hold it in pledge if it is for a foreign woman.

  • 15Whoever puts up security for a stranger will suffer harm, but whoever hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

  • 3So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have come into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your case with your neighbor.

  • 9I will be a guarantee for him; you can hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

  • Job 13:19-22
    4 verses
    72%

    19Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

    20Only grant me these two things, so that I will not hide myself from You:

    21Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

    22Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.

  • 5Or let them take hold of my refuge and make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.

  • Job 6:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.

    28But now, please look at me; would I lie to your face?

  • 3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

  • 34Is it not stored up with Me, sealed in My treasuries?

  • 3Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

  • 22Have I said, ‘Give to me,’ or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth’?

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    3Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue.

  • 5If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • 25If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and make my words nothing?

  • 4For you have closed their hearts to understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them.

  • 10whose hands are full of wicked schemes, and whose right hand is filled with bribes.

  • 3Will your empty talk silence others? Will you mock without anyone to rebuke you?

  • 3Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

  • 33There is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

  • 7There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • 5Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.

  • 21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 36:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

    18Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing, and let a great ransom not turn you aside.

  • 12Look, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. Know and understand that I am not guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not sinned against you, but you are hunting me down to take my life.

  • 14With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

  • 27and my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand offered them a kiss in worship,

  • 13See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.

  • 11You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you.

  • 21To make you know the certainty of true words, so that you can give truthful answers to those who send you?

  • 6For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • 6He has made me a byword among the peoples, and I have become one at whom they spit.

  • 10I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

  • 7Two things I ask of you, Lord; do not refuse me before I die:

  • 7You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.

  • 15Listen! They are saying to me, 'Where is the word of the LORD? Let it now be fulfilled!'

  • 22then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.

  • 8Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your words.