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Job 17:5 — He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

He that		Job 32:21,22; Psa 12:2,3; Pro 20:19; Pro 29:5; 1Th 2:5
the eyes		Exd 20:5; Deu 28:65; 1Ki 11:12; Lam 4:17

Correlating Passages

He that

	Job 32:21	Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
	Job 32:22	For I know not to give flattering titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon take me away.
	Psa 12:2	They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
	Psa 12:3	The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue that speaketh proud things:
	Pro 20:19	He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
	Pro 29:5	A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
	1Th 2:5	For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness:

the eyes

	Exd 20:5	Thou 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;
	Deu 28:65	And 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:
	1Ki 11:12	Notwithstanding 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.
	Lam 4:17	As 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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Scott, Thomas. "Job 17:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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