“God, make me a promise. No one will make a pledge for me.
I will guarantee you that he will be safe, and I will be personally responsible for him. If I don’t bring him back to you, you can blame me all my life.
“I gave my father a guarantee that the young boy would be safe. I said to my father, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, you can blame me all my life.’
“Call if you want to, Job, but no one will answer you. You can’t turn to any of the holy ones.
I wish there were someone to make peace between us, someone to decide our case.
Promise that you will help me, your servant. Don’t let proud people wrong me.
Whoever guarantees to pay somebody else’s loan will suffer. It is safer to avoid such promises.
It is not wise to promise to pay what your neighbor owes.
Take the coat of someone who promises to pay a stranger’s debts, and keep it until he pays what the stranger owes.
Don’t promise to pay what someone else owes, and don’t guarantee anyone’s loan.
So you will be as poor as if you had been robbed; you will have as little as if you had been held up.
I cried like a bird and moaned like a dove. My eyes became tired as I looked to the heavens. Lord, I have troubles. Please help me.”
This means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement from God to his people.
