Job 17:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ He that speaketh flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ 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)

⁵ He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Common English Bible

⁵ He denounces his friends for gain, and his children’s eyes fail.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ He promises prey to his companions, but the eyes of his sons will grow faint.

Job 17:5 Cross References

1 Kings 11:12

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.

Job 11:20

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.

Exodus 20:5

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;

Proverbs 20:19

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Proverbs 29:5

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

Lamentations 4:17

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.

Leviticus 19:13

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:65

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:

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness: