KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 17:3–4
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Job 17:3
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
3Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Job 17:4
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
4For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 17:3
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A pledge, guarantee, or person who answers for another's debt or obligation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To clasp hands in pledge or surety.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 17:4
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Concealed, covered, kept secret, or placed out of sight.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To raise to a higher position, power, dignity, honor, or appointed advantage.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study22By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
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Open the full verse study14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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Open the full verse study15He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
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Open the full verse study9I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
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Open the full verse study32For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
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Open the full verse study122Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
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Open the full verse study33Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
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Open the full verse study26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
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Open the full verse study18A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
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Open the full verse study16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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Open the full verse study11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study25¶ At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
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Open the full verse study11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
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Open the full verse study20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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Open the full verse study14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.
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Open the full verse study14The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
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Open the full verse study8(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
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Open the full verse study16And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
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Open the full verse study31¶ And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
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