Job 17:5
As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
In Context
4You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
1 Kings 11:12I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.
Job 32:21Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.
Proverbs 20:19He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide.
Lamentations 4:17Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
Matthew Henry on Job 17:2-10
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me… Read the whole commentary →