Job 17:3

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;

For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’

and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”