Job 17:5
For a portion he shows friendship, || And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
In Context
4For You have hidden their heart from understanding, || Therefore You do not exalt them.
6And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, || And I am a wonder before them.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5You do not bow yourself to them, nor serve them: for I, your God YHWH, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third and on a fourth [generation] of those hating Me,
1 Kings 11:12Only, I do not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I tear it out of the hand of your son;
Job 32:21Please do not let me accept the face of any, || Nor give flattering titles to man,
Proverbs 20:19The busybody is a revealer of secret counsels, || And do not make yourself guarantor for a deceiver [with] his lips.
Lamentations 4:17While we exist—consumed are our eyes for our vain help, || In our watchtower we have watched for a nation [that] does not save.
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 →