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Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself;
who is he who will give security for my hand?[a]
Indeed,[b] you have closed their mind from understanding;
therefore, you will not let them triumph.
He denounces friends for reward,
so[c] his children’s eyes will fail.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:3 Or “who will give security for me?”
  2. Job 17:4 Or “For”
  3. Job 17:5 Hebrew “and”

“Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.(A)
    Who else will put up security(B) for me?(C)
You have closed their minds to understanding;(D)
    therefore you will not let them triumph.
If anyone denounces their friends for reward,(E)
    the eyes of their children will fail.(F)

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