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Read Full Chapter (Job 17) Job 17:5 KJV
"He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."
Job 17:5 in Context (Verses 2–8 KJV)
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Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?*
3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.*
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.*
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Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.