A moment in scripture
Job 17:3
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Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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The surrounding passage
- Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
- Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
- Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
- Job 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.