Job 17:4

Job 17:4

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2 Are not mockers with me?
And does not my eye¹ dwell on their ^aprovocation?

3 “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
Who is he who ^awill shake hands with me?

4 For You have hidden their heart from ^aunderstanding;
Therefore You will not exalt them.

5 He who speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will ^afail.

6 “But He has made me ^aa byword of the people,
And I have become one in whose face men spit.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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For thou hast hid their heart - This address is to God; and here he is represented as doing that which in the course of his providence he only permits to be done.

Shalt thou not exalt them - This was exactly fulfilled: not one of Job' s friends was exalted; on the contrary, God condemned the whole; and they were not received into the Divine favor till Job sacrificed, and made intercession for them.

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