Job 17:5
He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Updated King James 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 hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in old times I was as a timbrel.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your 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;
1 Kings 11:12Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of your son.
Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
Proverbs 20:19He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
Lamentations 4:17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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 →