22For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
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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. …
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)Three things here apologize for Elihu’s interposing as he does in this controversy which had already been canvassed by such acute and learned disputants:— 1. That the stage was clear, and he did not break in upon any of the managers on either side: They were amazed (Job 32:15); they stood still, and answered no more , Job 32:16. They not only left off speaking themselves, but they stood still, to…
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