Job 17:5

Job's Fifth Speech, Continued

⁴ “For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.
⁵ “He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children also will languish.
⁶ “But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I am one at whom men spit.

Who Testifies

Job

Job 11:20

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”

Exodus 20:5

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

1 Kings 11:12

Nevertheless I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

Job 32:21-22

“Let me now be partial to no one,
Nor flatter any man.

Psalm 12:2-3

They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

Proverbs 20:19

He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets,
Therefore do not associate with a gossip.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor
Is spreading a net for his steps.

Lamentations 4:17

Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for help was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness—