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Job 17:5
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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.
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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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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.
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