KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 17:5–6
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Job 17:5
5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
5Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile.
Job 17:6
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
6He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and ‖afore time I was as a tabret.
- Or, before them.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 17:5
False praise; commendation bestowed for the purpose of gaining favor and influence, or to accomplish some purpose.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons joined to others by affection, goodwill, or alliance; as a verb, supports or befriends.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply; or to be entirely wanting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 17:6
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A common saying or proverb, often one expressing reproach.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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In time past; in a former time.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A small hand drum or tambourine.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
3The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
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Open the full verse study19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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Open the full verse study5A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
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Open the full verse study12Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
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Open the full verse study65And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
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Open the full verse study5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
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Open the full verse study20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
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Open the full verse study21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
22For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
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Open the full verse study5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
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Open the full verse study17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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Open the full verse study14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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Open the full verse study7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
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Open the full verse study27Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
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Open the full verse study12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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