Job 17:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 11:20 : 20 And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope `is' a breathing out of soul!
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles, 22 For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak. 3 Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation `that' saveth not.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;
  • 1 Kgs 11:12 : 12 `Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;

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    5A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

  • Ps 36:2-3
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    2For he made `it' smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

    3The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

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    4For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

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    19A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.

    20Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

    3Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

  • Prov 28:23-24
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    72%

    23Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

    24Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

  • Prov 17:4-7
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    4An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

    5Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.

    6Sons' sons `are' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are' their fathers.

    7Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

  • Prov 17:20-21
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    71%

    20The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

    21Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

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    21Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.

  • Job 6:27
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    27Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

  • Job 20:10
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    10His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

  • Prov 30:17
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    17An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

  • Prov 19:5
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    5A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

  • Prov 19:7
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    7All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!

  • Prov 27:11
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    11Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

  • Job 5:4
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    4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

  • Prov 10:10
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    10Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.

  • Prov 10:18
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    18Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    19Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

    20Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

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    11Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace `are' his lips, a king `is' his friend.

    12The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.

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    5Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.

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    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

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    4Despised in his eyes `is' a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;

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    30Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

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    8Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that `are' sweet.

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    14To a despiser of his friends `is' shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.

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    6Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

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    10Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.

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    6And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

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    6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

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    18Lest Jehovah see, and `it be' evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

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    12What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?

  • Deut 28:54
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    54`The man who is tender in thee, and who `is' very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,

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    25A provocation to his father `is' a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

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    26Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.

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    67%

    28A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.