Job 32:22

A Conservative Version

For I know not to give flattering titles, [else] my maker would soon take me away.

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For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

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

He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person. Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

However, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, and hearken to all my words.

My words [shall utter] the uprightness of my heart, and that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

He who rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.