Job 17:5
For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
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- 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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5 A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.
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2 For he made `it' smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.
3 The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.
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4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
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19 A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.
20 Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
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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,
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23 Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.
24 Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
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15 If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
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4 An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.
5 Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.
6 Sons' sons `are' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are' their fathers.
7 Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.
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28 A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!
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20 The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.
21 Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.
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9 For 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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21 Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.
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27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
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10 His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.
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17 An 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.
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5 A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
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7 All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!
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11 Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.
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4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
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10 Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.
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18 Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
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19 Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
20 Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
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11 Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace `are' his lips, a king `is' his friend.
12 The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
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5 Believe 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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4 Against 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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4 Despised 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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30 Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.
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8 Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that `are' sweet.
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14 To a despiser of his friends `is' shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
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6 Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.
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10 Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.
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6 And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.
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19 A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
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6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
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18 Lest Jehovah see, and `it be' evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.
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12 What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?
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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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25 A provocation to his father `is' a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.
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26 Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.
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28 A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.