Job 17:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 11:20 : 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.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, nor let me give flattering titles to man. 22 For I do not know how to give flattering titles; if I did, my maker would soon take me away.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore, do not associate with one who flatters with his lips.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
  • 1 Kgs 11:12 : 12 Nevertheless in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

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  • Prov 29:5
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    5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

  • Ps 36:2-3
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    2For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • Job 17:4
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    4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

  • Prov 20:19-20
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    19He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore, do not associate with one who flatters with his lips.

    20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

    3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

  • Prov 28:23-24
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    23He who rebukes a man afterward shall find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

    24Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no transgression, is a companion of a destroyer.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.

  • Prov 17:4-7
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    4A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

    5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

    7Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, much less lying lips for a prince.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Prov 17:20-21
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    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

    21He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Job 14:21
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    21His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

  • Job 6:27
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    27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • Job 20:10
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    10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

  • Prov 30:17
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    17The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Prov 19:5
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    5A false witness shall not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall not escape.

  • Prov 19:7
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    7All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may have an answer for him who reproaches me.

  • Job 5:4
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    4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them.

  • Prov 10:10
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    10He who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a prating fool shall fall.

  • Prov 10:18
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    18He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who utters slander, is a fool.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

    20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

  • Prov 22:11-12
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    11He who loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

    12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the transgressor.

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 15:4
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    4In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own hurt, and does not change.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

  • Prov 23:8
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    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Job 6:14
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    14To him who is afflicted, pity should be shown by his friend; yet he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

  • Prov 27:6
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    6Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

  • Prov 25:10
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    10Lest he who hears it put you to shame, and your infamy not be turned away.

  • Ps 41:6
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    6And if he comes to see me, he speaks vain things; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes out, he tells it.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

  • Job 17:6
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    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Job 15:12
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    12Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

  • Deut 28:54
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    54So that the man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

  • Prov 17:25
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    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 19:26
    67%

    26He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

  • Prov 16:28
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    28A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.