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Job 17:5
Job 17:5 is verse 5 of Job chapter 17, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
King James Version
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
World English Bible
He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
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Job 17:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 32:21I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
Job 32:22For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.
Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
Psalms 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
Proverbs 20:19He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
Proverbs 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
1 Thessalonians 2:5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Deuteronomy 28:65Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
1 Kings 11:12Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
Lamentations 4:17All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.