Job 17:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Job 17:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 12:2-3
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. …
Proverbs 29:5
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Proverbs 20:19
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
1 Kings 11:12
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

Topics

Deceit Deception Falsehood Flattery Speaking

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Job’s discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:— I. The deplorable condition which poor Job was now in, which he describes, to aggravate the great unkindness of his friends to him and to justify his own complaints. Let us see what his case was. 1. He was a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. The Hebrew for “flattery” is “smoothness”; then it came to mean a prey divided by lot, because a smooth stone was used in casting the lots (De 18:8), “a portion” (Ge 14:24). Therefore translate, “He that delivers up his friend as a prey (which the conduct of my friends implies that they would do), even the eyes,” &c. [Noyes] (Job 11:20). Job says this as to the sinner’s children, retorting upon…