[a]Lay down now, and put me in surety for thee: who is he, that [b]will touch mine hand?

For thou hast hid their heart from [c]understanding: therefore shalt thou not set them up on high.

[d]For the eyes of his children shall fail, that speaketh flattery to his friends.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:3 He reasoneth with God as a man beside himself, to the intent that his cause might be brought to light.
  2. Job 17:3 And answers for thee?
  3. Job 17:4 That these mine afflictions are thy just judgments, though man know not the cause.
  4. Job 17:5 He that flattereth a man, and only judgeth him happy in his prosperity, shall not himself only but in his posterity be punished.

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