KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 32:21–22
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Job 32:21
21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
21Let me not, I pray you, accept any mans person: neither let me giue flattering titles vnto man.
Job 32:22
22For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
22For I know not to giue flattering titles: in so doing my maker would soone take me away.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 32:21
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To receive willingly or with favour; to approve.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
flattering
Pleasing to pride or vanity; gratifying to self-love.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Names or terms of honor or distinction, especially flattering forms of address.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 32:22
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
flattering
Pleasing to pride or vanity; gratifying to self-love.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Names or terms of honor or distinction, especially flattering forms of address.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
One who makes, forms, creates, prepares, or brings something into being; in references to God, the Creator.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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From verse 21
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Open the full verse study15¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
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Open the full verse study8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
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Open the full verse study17Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee.
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Open the full verse study20To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
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Open the full verse study22And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
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Open the full verse study2And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence,
3We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.
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Open the full verse study17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
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Open the full verse study19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
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Open the full verse study10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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Open the full verse study19How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
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Open the full verse study16And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
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Open the full verse study23These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
From verse 22
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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 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 study5A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
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Open the full verse study10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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Open the full verse study5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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