Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 17:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
Job 17:10 opens the thought unit with the words “But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man….” Job turns or qualifies the speech with “But as for you all, do ye return, and come now” inside Job Rejects the Friends' Wisdom and Questions Hope.
Read It With
- Job 17:10–17:16
Read Job 17:10 with 17:10–17:16. Read alone, “But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job invites the friends to try again, says his plans and heart's desires are broken, and asks whether hope can descend with him to the grave.
Why It Needs Context
Job 17:10 depends on 17:10–17:16; isolating “But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Rejects the Friends' Wisdom and Questions Hope.”
Read Job 17:10–16 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 17:10–17:16 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Rejects the Friends' Wisdom and Questions Hope.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 10. 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Verse 11. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Verse 12. 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
Verse 13. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Verse 14. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Verse 15. 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Verse 16. 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 17:10–17:16 — Job Rejects the Friends' Wisdom and Questions HopeSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 17:10–17:16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 17:10–17:16
Open the fixed Hebrew Job file ↗