Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 17:5
RV 'He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.'
RV 'He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.'
Verse Job 17:5. _HE THAT SPEAKETH FLATTERY_] There is a great variety of meaning given to the terms in this verse. The general sense is, The man who expects much from his friends will be disappointed:...
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 plunder.”...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
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 seems to be...
HE THAT, &C. Supply Ellipsis, as in translation below; and treat Job 17:5 as. quotation. CHILDREN. sons. FAIL. look in vain....
This verse is very obscure. In some way or other it must carry on Job's severe reflection on the conduct of his friends (Job 17:4), and express it in a stronger way. The word rendered in A.V. _flatter...
These verses support the petition in Job 17:3. If God will not undertake for Job none else will, for the hearts of his friends have been blinded. This thought of the perverse obstinacy and cruelty of...
New appeal to God that He would undertake for Job or give him a pledge that he would cause his innocence to be acknowledged by God, Job 17:3; with the grounds for this prayer as before, Job 17:4....
Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a pledge that He will make his innocence appear In Job 16:12 Jo...
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 a p...
4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...
_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 friends vo...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
Job was right to say that such a person is very evil. But we do not believe that the person’s children should suffer. Each person is responsible for his own evil deeds. (See Ezekiel chapter 18.) So ea...
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 meaning...
לְ֭ חֵלֶק יַגִּ֣יד רֵעִ֑ים וְ עֵינֵ֖י בָנָ֣יו
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
“THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
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 unutterable...
(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 post...
_He. My friend. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "speaketh flattery," (Haydock) or promiseth to caress me, while he neglects his own children. But the sense of the Vulgate and Chaldean seem preferable. My friends...
(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 a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 repe...
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 h...
_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...
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail, literally, "he who offers his friends for a prey," exposing them to unjust accusations, as did the three friends of...
JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS WEAKNESS...
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...
Job is so disgusted with the actions of his friends that he accuses them of turning against him from no other motive than an informer would in hopes of gaining. share of the spoil. They had selfishly...
1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of...
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 bef...
Job 17:5 speaks H5046 (H8686) flattery H2506 friends H7453 eyes H5869 children H1121 fail H3615 (H8799) He t
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
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 weeps...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 17:5 Since vv. Job 17:1 are likely addressed to God, in v. Job 17:5 Job may be asking God to remember what his friends have done, or
_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, as a l...
EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
1 Kings 11:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; Deuteronomy 28:65; Exodus 20:5;...