Job 17:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ “Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will give surety for me?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; Who is he that will strike hands with me?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Give me a pledge with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death]; who is there that will give security for me?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

Common English Bible

³ Take my guarantee. Who else is willing to make an agreement?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Free me, O Lord, and set me beside you, and let the hand of anyone you wish fight against me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee: and let any man's hand fight against me.

Job 17:3 Cross References

Genesis 43:9

I myself will be surety for him; you can hold me accountable for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

Genesis 44:32

For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.’

Job 5:1

“Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Job 9:33

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

Psalm 119:122

Guarantee your servant’s well-being; do not let the godless oppress me.

Proverbs 11:15

To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble, but there is safety in refusing to do so.

Proverbs 17:18

It is senseless to give a pledge, to become surety for a neighbor.

Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

Proverbs 22:26

Do not be one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.

Proverbs 6:11

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

Hebrews 7:22

accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.