Job 32:22

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For I do not know how to flatter, else would my Maker soon put an end to me.

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He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.

I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward any man.

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

‘Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

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

Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

For we never used either words of flattery, as you know, or a cloak for greed, as God is witness;