Job 17:5 · KJV
“He that speaketh flattery to {his} friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.”
— Job 17:5
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt {them}.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
Job 17 — Context
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who {is} he {that} will strike hands with me?
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt {them}.
5He that speaketh flattery to {his} friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}
Cross References
Psalms 12:2-3
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: {with} flattering lips {and} with a double heart do they speak. {a double...: Heb. an heart and an heart}
Proverbs 20:19
He that goeth about {as} a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. {flattereth: or, enticeth}
Proverbs 29:5
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
1 Kings 11:12
Notwithstanding 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.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope {shall be as} the giving up of the ghost. {they shall...: Heb. flight shall perish from them} {the giving...: or, a puff of breath}
Job 32:21-22
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
Deuteronomy 28:65
And 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:
Exodus 20:5
Thou 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;