Job 17:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Set my pledge beside you. Who else will put up security for me?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:15 : 15 The one who has put up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands is secure.
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.
  • Ps 119:122 : 122 Guarantee the welfare of your servant! Do not let the arrogant oppress me!
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O Lord, I am oppressed; help me!
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
  • Prov 6:11 : 11 and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
  • Gen 44:32 : 32 Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’
  • Job 9:33 : 33 Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,
  • Prov 22:26 : 26 Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger,

  • 18 The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

  • 2 Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

  • 77%

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

    27 If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

  • 13 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.

  • 16 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.

  • 15 The one who has put up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands is secure.

  • 3 then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

  • 9 I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

  • Job 13:19-22
    4 verses
    72%

    19 Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

    20 Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

    21 Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

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

  • 5 unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.

  • Job 6:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

    28 Other Explanation“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!

  • 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • 14 Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

  • 34 “Is this not stored up with me?” says the LORD,“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

  • 3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

  • 22 Friends’ Fears“Have I ever said,‘Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor’?

  • 70%

    3 O LORD my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

  • 5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

  • 25 “If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

  • 4 Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

  • 10 who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.

  • 3 Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?

  • 3 Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

  • 33 Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

  • 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

  • 5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

  • 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Job 36:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

    18 Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

  • 12 May the LORD judge between the two of us, and may the LORD vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

  • 14 with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

  • 27 so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,

  • 13 “‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

  • 11 You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

  • 21 to show you true and reliable words, so that you may give accurate answers to those who sent you?

  • 6 “For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

  • 6 He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

  • 10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

  • 7 Two things I have asked from you; do not refuse me before I die:

  • 7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

  • 15 Look at what they are saying to me,“Where are the events in the LORD’s message? Let’s see them happen, please!”

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

  • 8 Elihu Rejects Job’s Plea of Innocence“Indeed, you have said in my hearing(I heard the sound of the words!):