Job 17:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will fail.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He who denounces his friends [in order to make them] a prey and get a share, the eyes of his children shall fail [to find food].

American Standard Version (1901)

He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Common English Bible

He denounces his friends for gain, and his children’s eyes fail.

Catholic Public Domain Version

He promises prey to his companions, but the eyes of his sons will grow faint.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He promiseth a prey to his companions: and the eyes of his children shall fail.

Job 17:5 Cross References

1 Kings 11:12

Yet for the sake of your father David I will not do it in your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Proverbs 20:19

A gossip reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a babbler.

Proverbs 29:5

Whoever flatters a neighbor is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; we were watching eagerly for a nation that could not save.

Leviticus 19:13

“You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,