Job 17:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Put down now, give me a pledge with You; who is he that will strike hands with me?

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  • Prov 11:15 : 15 He who is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it, and he who hates suretyship is secure.
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge 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 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 By so much was Jesus made the guarantor of a better covenant.
  • Prov 6:11 : 11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.
  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him: if I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever:
  • Gen 44:32 : 32 For your servant became a guarantee for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.
  • Job 9:33 : 33 Nor is there any mediator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
  • Prov 22:26 : 26 Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 A man lacking understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 18A man lacking understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend.

  • 2Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?

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    26Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • 13Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.

  • 16Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.

  • 15He who is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it, and he who hates suretyship is secure.

  • 3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

  • 9I will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him: if I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever:

  • Job 13:19-22
    4 verses
    72%

    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

    20Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you.

    21Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.

    22Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

  • 5Or let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.

  • Job 6:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

    28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie.

  • 3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

  • 34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

  • 3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

  • 22Did I say, Bring to me? Or Give a reward for me of your substance?

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    3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

  • 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • 25And if it is not so, now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?

  • 4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

  • 10in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

  • 3Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

  • 3Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • 33Nor is there any mediator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

  • 7There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 8Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 5Look at me and be astonished, and place your hand over your mouth.

  • 21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • Job 36:17-18
    2 verses
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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

    18Because there is wrath, beware lest he takes you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

  • 12The LORD judge between me and you, and the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be upon you.

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

  • 27And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

  • 13Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

  • 11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you.

  • 21That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer the words of truth to those who send to you?

  • 6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • 6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • 10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

  • 7Two things I have requested of You; do not deny me before I die:

  • 7You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.

  • 15Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • 22Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken at the bone.

  • 8Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,