Job 17:10

Modern

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

Traditional

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

Literal

But all of them, you should return and come in, please! And I shall not find a wise one among you.

Latin

Igitur omnes vos convertimini, et venite, et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem.

Hebrew

English

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

Job no longer trusted his friends and thought he would die without hope (6:15–21; 13:4–5; 16:2–3; compare 12:2).

Job 6:29
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
Job 42:7
After 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 32:9
It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?
Malachi 3:18
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Job 12:2
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where 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 15:9
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Job 17:4
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.