Job 17:10

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Mas tornai-vos, todos vs, e vinde c; porque sbio nenhum acharei entre vs.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Mas, na verdade, tornai todos vs e vinde; porque sbio nenhum acharei entre vs.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Mas, na verdade, tornai todos vs e vinde c; porque sbio nenhum acho entre vs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

do ye return: Job 6:29, Malachi 3:18

for I: Job 17:4, Job 15:9, Job 32:9, Job 42:7, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 6:5

Reciprocal: Job 15:27 - he covereth Job 18:3 - Wherefore Job 26:3 - counselled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now,.... This is an address to his three friends, all and everyone of them, who he perceived were nettled with his reply, and were either departing, or preparing for a rejoinder; and being conscious of his innocence, and satisfied of the goodness of his cause, and having nothing to fear from them, boldly challenges them to go on with the dispute; for though they were three to one, he was a match for them all; or else he calls upon them to turn and repent of what they had said to him, to relinquish the bad notions and ill opinion they had of him, and to retract their hard speeches and unjust censures, and return to a friendly and amicable conversation; or however, that they would come and sit down quietly, and patiently hear what he had further to say to them for their information and instruction, which they stood in great need of:

for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you; that took his case right, was capable of judging of it, and speaking pertinently to it, and of administering comfort to him in it; they were physicians, but not skilful ones; comforters, but miserable ones; had not the tongue of the learned, to speak a word in season; disputants, but wranglers, and knew not where the pinch of the controversy lay; and their arguments were weak and worthless, and their judgment and sense of things not deserving any regard, see 1 Corinthians 6:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But 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 construction.

For I cannot find one wise man among you - Perhaps the idea here is, “I have not yet found one wise man among you, and you are invited, therefore, to renew the argument. Hitherto you have said nothing that indicates wisdom. Try again, and see if you can say anything now that shall deserve attention.” If this is the meaning, it shows that Job was willing to hear all that they had to say, and to give them credit for wisdom, if they ever evinced any.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 17:10. But 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 endeavour to acquire humility and knowledge; for there is not one wise man among you.