Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Be surety for Your servant for good; let not the proud press me down.

New American Standard Bible

Be surety for Your servant for good;
Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

King James Version

Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

Holman Bible

Guarantee Your servant’s well-being;
do not let the arrogant oppress me.

International Standard Version

Back up your servant in a positive way; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

A Conservative Version

Be surety for thy servant for good. Let not the proud oppress me.

American Standard Version

Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.

Amplified


Be the guarantee for Your servant for good [as Judah was the guarantee for Benjamin];
Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Bible in Basic English

Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.

Darby Translation

Be surety for thy servant for good; let not the proud oppress me.

Julia Smith Translation

Be surety for thy servant for good: the proud shall not oppress me.

King James 2000

Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Pledge good for your servant; do not let [the] arrogant oppress me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Be thou surety for thy servant to do him good, that the proud do me no wrong.

NET Bible

Guarantee the welfare of your servant! Do not let the arrogant oppress me!

New Heart English Bible

Ensure your servant's well-being. Do not let the proud oppress me.

The Emphasized Bible

Be thou surety for thy servant for good, Let not insolent men oppress me.

Webster

Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.

Verse Info

Cross References

Job 17:3

Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself; who is he who will strike hands with me?

Hebrews 7:22

by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.

Genesis 43:9

I will be surety for him. You shall require him of my hand. If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, I shall be a sinner against you all the days.

Psalm 36:11

Do not let the foot of pride come against me, and do not let the hand of the wicked move me.

Psalm 119:21

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who go astray from Your Commandments.

Proverbs 22:26-27

Be not one of those who strike hands, of those who are sureties for debts.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O Jehovah, I am pressed down; be surety for me.

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