The King James Version Bible

Job 17:5

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

Cross References

  1. 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.
  2. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
  3. And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
  4. 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.
  5. Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
  6. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
  7. He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
  8. A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
  9. As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
  10. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: