God’s Word Translation
Job 17:10
10“But now, all of you, come and try again! I won’t find one wise man among you.
Job 17:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
- New International Version (NIV)“But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man among you.
Context of Job 17:10
8Decent people are shocked by this, and it stirs up the innocent against godless people. 9Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. “But now, all of you, come and try again! I won’t find one wise man among you. 11My days are passing by. My plans are broken. My dreams ⌞are shattered⌟. 12You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness.
Read all of Job 17Job 17:10 word by word
וְֽאוּלָ֗ם כֻּלָּ֣ם תָּ֭שֻׁבוּ וּבֹ֣אוּ נָ֑א וְלֹֽא־אֶמְצָ֖א בָכֶ֣ם חָכָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 17:10
- Job 6:29Please change your mind. Don’t permit any injustice. Change your mind because I am still right about this!
- Malachi 3:18Then you will again see the difference between righteous people and wicked people, between the one who serves God and the one who doesn’t serve him.
- Job 17:4You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them.
- Job 15:9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t?
- Job 32:9People do not become wise merely because they live long. They don’t understand what justice is merely because they’re old.
- Job 42:7After the Lord had said those things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz from Teman, “I’m very angry with you and your two friends because you didn’t speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done.
- 1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the persuasive speaker of our time? Hasn’t God turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense?
- 1 Corinthians 6:5You should be ashamed of yourselves! Don’t you have at least one wise person who is able to settle disagreements between believers?
Commentaries on Job 17:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10But as for you all - Ye are too proud, and too full of self-importance, to profit by what ye see. Return - enter into yourselves, consider your ways, go again to school, get back to your own houses, and endeavor to acquire humility and knowledge; for there is not one wise man among you.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10But as for you all, do you return - This may mean, either, “return to the debate;” or, “return from your unjust and uncharitable opinion concerning me.” The former seems to accord best with the scope of the passage. Tindal renders it, “Get you hence.” Dr. Good, “Get ye hence, and begone, I pray.” Wemyss, “Repeat your discourses as often as you may, I do not find a wise man among you.” It is doubtful, however, whether the Hebrew will bear this…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world. It is our wisdom to comfort ourselves, and others, in distress, with that which will not fail; the promise of God, his love and grace, and a well-grounded hope of eternal life. See how Job…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-16Job no longer trusted his friends and thought he would die without hope (6:15–21; 13:4–5; 16:2–3; compare 12:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. return--If you have anything to advance really wise, though I doubt it, recommence your speech. For as yet I cannot find one wise man among you all.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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