Job 32:22

King James 2000

For I know not how to give flattery; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

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For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:

For do I now seek the favor of men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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

He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children 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, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattery unto man.

Therefore, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

He that rebukes a man shall find more favor afterwards than he that flatters with the tongue.