Job 32:22

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

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For neither have we used, at any time, the speech of flattery, as you know; nor taken an occasion of covetousness, God is witness:

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

He promiseth a prey to his companions: and the eyes of his children shall fail.

Shall man be justified in comparison of God; or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

I will not accept the person of man: and I will not level God with man.

Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches: and hearken to all my words.

My words are from my upright heart: and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.

He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.