Job 17:10
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Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.

do ye return

Job 6:29 Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Malachi 3:18 And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

for I

Job 17:4 Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.

Job 15:9 What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?

Job 32:9 They that are aged are not the wise men, neither do the ancients understand judgment.

Job 42:7 And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath.

1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man that is able to judge between his brethren?

Context
Job Prepares for Death
9And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. 10Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.11My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.…
Cross References
Job 12:2
Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?

Job 17:11
My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.

Lexicon
But
וְֽאוּלָ֗ם (wə·’ū·lām)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 199: However, on the contrary

come back
וּבֹ֣אוּ (ū·ḇō·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and try again,
תָּ֭שֻׁבוּ (tā·šu·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

all of you.
כֻּלָּ֣ם (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

For I will not
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

find
אֶמְצָ֖א (’em·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

a wise man
חָכָֽם׃ (ḥā·ḵām)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2450: Wise

among you.
בָכֶ֣ם (ḇā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, for I do not find truth in you.

But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.

But return ye, all of you, and come now: and I shall not find a wise man among you.

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
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