Job 17:5
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He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
In other translations
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Psalm 12:2-32 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:2 They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart. 3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
- Proverbs 20:19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
- Proverbs 29:5A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
- Deuteronomy 28:65And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
- Job 32:21-2221 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. 22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.21 I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man. 22 For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.
- 1 Kings 11:12Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- Lamentations 4:17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
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