Job 17:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:12

I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

Exodus 20:5

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Proverbs 20:19

He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

Leviticus 19:13

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

Leviticus 19:16

Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:65

And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,