5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. …
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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.
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.
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…
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