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

⁵ Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will 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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

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,

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.