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 befriending God, and giving a partial sentence out of respect to him; for which he reproved and condemned them before, Job 13:7-9, where see the notes. Some render the words thus, He that uttereth or declareth his mind or thoughts (as this word signifies, Psalms 139:2,17) with flattery, or to flatter or deceive another. The eyes of his children shall fail; he shall be severely punished, not only in his person, but even in his children, whose eyes shall fail with vain expectations of relief and deliverance out of those calamities which shall come upon them for this sin of their parents.