What does Job 17:4 mean?

Job 17:4 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Job 17:4 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

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