Job 32:22

King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my Maker would soon take me away.

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

For do I now persuade 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 flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

He that speaketh 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 flattering titles unto man.

Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, 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 rebuketh a man, afterward shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue.