Job 17:5
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 17:5 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 17:5 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 17:5 — KJV
“He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.”
— Job 17:5 (KJV)
Job 17:5 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 17:5
“Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. swoon: or, faint”
Shares key themes with Job 17:5: eyes, children, fail
“Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.”
Shares key themes with Job 17:5: even, children
“And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.”
Shares key themes with Job 17:5: even, eyes
“And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.”
Shares key themes with Job 17:5: even, children
“And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, audience: Heb. ears”
Shares key themes with Job 17:5: even, children
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