Job 17:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. ”

• Job 17:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He that speaketh flattery to his friends - Noyes renders this, “He that delivers up his friend as a prey, the eyes of his children shall fail.” So Wemyss, “He who delivers up his friends to plund...

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• Job 17:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (f) He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (f) He who flatters a man, and only judges him happy in his prosperity, will not himself only but in his pos...

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• Job 17:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 16:22 to Job 17:16 . Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. Job 17:2 is obscure; the general sense...

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• Job 17:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  He that, &c. Supply Ellipsis, as in translation below; and treat Job 17:5 as. quotation. children . sons. fail . look in vain.

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• Job 17:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. He that speaketh flattery - There is a great variety of meaning given to the terms in this verse. The general sen...

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• Job 17:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He that speaketh flattery to his friends— The Hebrew of this verse literally runs thus: תכלננ בניו ועיני רעים יגיד לחלק lechelek yaggiid reiim veeinei banaiv tiklenah, He shall reckon friends for...

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• Job 17:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. Not only are the frie...

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• Job 17:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Fourth Speech (concluded) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the...

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• Job 17:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He that speaketh flattery to his friends. — The three words thus rendered are, from their very brevity, most obscure. Literally, they run: for a portion he will tell friends. But what is the mean...

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• Job 17:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...

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• Job 17:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...

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• Job 17:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterabl...

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• Job 17:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. (5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (6) He hath made me...

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• Job 17:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends ,.... As Job's friends did to him when they promised great outward prosperity, and a restoration to his former state, and to a greater affluence upon his r...

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• Job 17:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. Ver. 5. He that speaketh flattery to his friends ] As you, my friends, do to and for God, in seeming to assert...

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• Job 17:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He that speaketh flattery to his friends “The Hebrew of this verse,” says Peters, “literally, runs thus: He shall reckon friends for a portion , or inheritance, and the eyes of his children shall...

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• Job 17:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...

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• Job 17:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520.       1 My breath...

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• Job 17:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Hereby Job chargeth them, either, 1. With flattering him with vain hopes, and promises of the return of his former prosperity, when he knew that his case was desperate. Or, 2. With flattering and...

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• Job 17:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Bemoans his dying condition ( Job 17:1 ). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished,...

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• Job 17:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye we...

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• Job 17:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...

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• Job 17:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of his Weakness

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• Job 17:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 11:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:5 ; Deuteronomy 28:65 ; Exodus 20:5 ; Job 32:21 ; Job 32:22 ; Lamentations 4:17 ; Proverbs 20:19 ; Proverbs 29:5 ; Psalms 12:2 ; Psalms 12:3

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