Job 17:5

²Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. ³May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

⁵A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

¹⁹He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

⁵you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

²⁰But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

¹²Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

²¹Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man. ²²For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.

⁶⁵Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

¹⁷Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

⁵For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),