Job Prepares for Death
Job 17:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
- KJV
- But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
- WEB
- But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
- ASV
- But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.
- LSV
- But please return and come in, all of you, || And I do not find a wise man among you.
- YLT
- Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
- DBY
- But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
- DRC
- Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
- GNV
- All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.
- JPS
- But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.
- LXXE
- Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, for I do not find truth in you.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְֽאוּלָ֗ם כֻּלָּ֣ם תָּ֭שֻׁבוּ וּבֹ֣אוּ נָ֑א וְלֹֽא־אֶמְצָ֖א בָכֶ֣ם חָכָֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- Οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ πάντες ἐρείδετε καὶ δεῦτε δὴ, οὐ γὰρ εὑρίσκω ἐν ὑμῖν ἀληθές.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 6:29Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
- Job 42:7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
- Job 12:2“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
- 1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
- Job 15:9What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
- 1 Corinthians 6:5I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?
- Job 32:9It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
- Job 17:4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
- Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
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