Job 32:22
For I know not to give flattering titles, [else] my maker would soon take me away.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
In Context
21Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person. Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
Cross References
Job 17:5He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
Psalms 12:2They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.
Proverbs 28:23He who rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.
Galatians 1:10For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.
Matthew Henry on Job 32:16-22
15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. 16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) 17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show mine opinion. 18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me… Read the whole commentary →