King James Version
Job 17:3 in the King James Version says “Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?” — study this verse from Job chapter 17 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?”
Job 17:3 · KJV
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. breath: or, spirit is spent
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? continue: Heb. lodge
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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“Lay down”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“now put me in a surety”
H6148to braid, i.e., intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange)
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“with thee who is he that will strike”
H8628to clatter, i.e., slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become
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