Job 32:22 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²² For I do not know how to flatter, else would my Maker soon put an end to me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² For I know not to give flattering titles; In so doing my Maker would soon take me away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² For I know not how to flatter, [wasting my time in mere formalities, for then] my Maker would soon take me away.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² For I know not to give flattering titles; Else would my Maker soon take me away.

Common English Bible

²² for I don’t know flattery; otherwise my maker would quickly whisk me away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² For I do not know how long I will continue, and whether, after a while, my Maker might take me away.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.

Job 32:22 Cross References

Job 17:5

He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.

Job 32:21

I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward any man.

Job 33:1

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

Job 33:3

My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

Job 4:17

‘Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Proverbs 28:23

He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we never used either words of flattery, as you know, or a cloak for greed, as God is witness;