Job 17:5

Modern English Version

He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children will fail.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:12

I will not do this in your lifetime for your father David’s sake, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and they will not escape, and their hope will be as the giving up of breath.”

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate Me,

Proverbs 20:19

He who goes about as a slanderer betrays secrets; therefore associate not with the babbler.

Proverbs 29:5

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

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed us, watching vainly for help; in our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not defraud your neighbor or rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, nor shall you stand by while the life of your neighbor is in danger: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among these nations you will find no ease, nor will the sole of your foot have rest. But there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time did we come with flattering words, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed. God is our witness.