5 For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope `is' a breathing out of soul!
Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
`Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;
Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles, For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.
A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.
A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.
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Commentary on Job 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
In this chapter,
His friends becoming strange to him, which greatly grieved him, he makes death and the grave familiar to him, which yielded him some comfort.
Job 17:1-9
Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:-
Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,