Job 32:22
For I know not how to flatter; my Maker would soon take me away.
Darby Translation
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, accept any man's person; neither will I give flattery to man.
Cross References
Job 17:5He that betrayeth friends for a prey even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Psalms 12:2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
Proverbs 28:23He that rebuketh a man shall afterwards find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Galatians 1:10For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.
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 →