I myself will be his pledge. You can demand him back from my own hand. If I don’t bring him back to you and place him before you, then you can blame me all my days.
Job 17:3 - Tree of Life Version “Make then a pledge for me with You. Who else would strike hands with me? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; Who is he that will strike hands with me? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me? Common English Bible Take my guarantee. Who else is willing to make an agreement? Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee: and let any man's hand fight against me. |
I myself will be his pledge. You can demand him back from my own hand. If I don’t bring him back to you and place him before you, then you can blame me all my days.
For your servant became pledge for the boy with my father saying, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before my father all my days.’
“Cry out now! Will anyone answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
There is no arbitrator between us, who could lay his hand on us both;
Guarantee Your servant’s well-being. Do not let arrogant ones oppress me.
Whoever puts up security for a stranger will have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands on such a deal is secure.
A man lacking judgment shakes hands on a deal and puts up financial security for his neighbor.
Take a man’s garment, who puts up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge, as security for a foreign woman.
and your poverty comes like a bandit and your need like an armed man.
Like a swallow or a crane, I whisper, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary, looking upward. Adonai, I am oppressed, be my security!
How much more then has Yeshua become the guarantee of a better covenant.