Job 32:22

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For I knew not, shall I flatter; for a little while, he making me will take me away.

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For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:

For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

A man making smooth against his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

He will commence evils for a position, and the eyes of his sons shall be consumed.

Shall a man be just above God? If a man shall be pure above him making him?

Not now shall I lift up the face of man, and I shall not flatter to man.

And yet hear now, O Job, my speech, and give ear to all my words.

My sayings the uprightness of my heart, and my lips spake knowledge purely.

He reproving a man, afterwards shall find favor more than he smoothing the tongue.