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Job 17:3
“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
Job 17:3 · World English Bible
Job 17:3 in other translations
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
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In context
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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